MADAyuMadyan – Had yang dikenakan ke atas orang-orang pelarian yang menyeberangi sempadan Iraq-Syria. Kerajaan Iraq Kurdistan telah meletakkan kuota kemasukan 3,000 pelarian setiap hari untuk menampung bilangan besar Kurdis melarikan diri dari perang saudara di Syria.
Sekitar 30,000 pelarian telah melintasi ke Iraq sejak Khamis, menurut agensi bantuan. Yang diikuti Kurdistan pihak berkuasa kerajaan serantau membuka akses kepada jambatan baru di sempadan.
Satu pelarian Syria yang telah menyeberangi ke Iraq berkata beliau percaya “tidak ada harapan yang banyak daripada penyelesaian yang damai di Syria”. Beliau menjelaskan bahawa mereka sedang “dibom oleh rejim dan ahli-ahli Barisan Al ‘Nusra telah meniup diri mereka”. Beliau berkata bahawa “Orang-orang Kurdis dan Arab telah melarikan diri dari negara itu.”
Lebih daripada 1.9 juta orang Syria telah lari dari negara itu sejak konflik itu bermula pada Mac 2011. Pertubuhan Antarabangsa bagi Migrasi telah berkata bahawa Kurdis takut serangan oleh pelbagai kumpulan pemberontak bersenjata termasuk Al ‘Nusra, militia Islam dikaitkan dengan Al ‘Qaeda.
Governer Arbil, salah satu daripada wilayah-wilayah dalam Kurdistan Iraq, berkata bahawa “bilangan orang-orang pelarian yang semakin meningkat setiap hari” dan mereka “tidak bersedia untuk apa-apa kemasukan”. Nozad Hadi menjelaskan bahawa “ia adalah penghijrahan secara tiba-tiba dan destinasi adalah Kurdistan”. Beliau menambah bahawa mereka telah “membuka 2 lagi kem-kem di Arbil”.
Limit imposed on refugees crossing Iraq-Syria border. The government of Iraqi Kurdistan has put an entry quota of 3,000 refugees per day in order to cope with the large number of Kurds fleeing the civil war in Syria.
Around 30,000 refugees have crossed into Iraq since Thursday, according to aid agencies. That followed the Kurdistan regional government authorities opening access to a new bridge on the border.
One Syrian refugee who had crossed into Iraq said he believed "there is no more hope of a peaceful solution in Syria". He explained that they were being "bombed by the regime and members of the al-Nusra Front were blowing themselves up". He said that "the Kurds and Arabs were fleeing the country".
More than 1.9 million Syrians have fled the country since the conflict began in March 2011. The International Organisation for Migration has said that Kurds fear attacks by various armed rebel groups including al-Nusra, the Islamist militia linked to al-Qaeda.
The Governer of Arbil, one of the provinces within Iraqi Kurdistan, said that the "number of refugees is increasing daily" and they "are not prepared for such an influx". Nozad Hadi explains that "it was a sudden exodus and the destination was Kurdistan". He adds that they have "opened two more camps in Arbil".
