On April 25, the fourth group of citizens of Tajikistan was returned from Syria on a special flight, as reported by the NIAT "Khovar".
At Dushanbe airport, they were met by Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic Dilrabo Mansuri, First Deputy Head of the President's Executive Office Firdavs Khayotzoda, Presidential Assistant for Social Development and Public Relations Abdullo Rahmonzoda, as well as heads of relevant ministries and departments.
"The returned women and children, after the necessary stages of rehabilitation and social integration, will be covered by the family environment. The rehabilitation, adaptation to normal life, as well as the employment and education of women and children returned from conflict zones, are under the special attention of the President of the Republic," Khovar noted.
According to the agency, as a result of the implementation of specific measures during the years 2019-2023, more than 300 Tajik women and children have been returned to their homeland from Iraq and Syria. Upon arrival, all returnees are placed in specially prepared locations where they undergo rehabilitation.
It is worth noting that in May of the previous year, 104 people (29 families) were brought back from Syria.
In March 2023, 146 women and children who were brought to Tajikistan from Syria in July 2022 were reunited with their families after undergoing medical examinations and receiving psychological assistance from specialists.
In 2019 and 2022, the authorities of Tajikistan brought home two groups of citizens from Syria and Iraq. The first group included 89 children aged 1 to 18, and the second group consisted of 146 women and children.
In 2019, the returnees were accommodated in the "Kharangon" rest house in the Varzob Gorge. In 2022, they were accommodated in the tourist complex of the Tax Committee of Tajikistan in Varzob.
The process of returning Tajik citizens who were in refugee camps in Iraq and Syria began as early as 2017. According to Tajik authorities, since the emergence of ISIS in 2013, more than 2000 citizens of Tajikistan have traveled to Syria and Iraq, some of them taking their wives and children or creating families there. In March of this year, the President of the Republic stated at a meeting with the clergy that "more than a thousand of them have been killed."
