Germany Repatriates ISIS Survivor With Children

Germany is setting a precedent by helping ISIS survivors of war from Syria. As its first case of showing clemency, the German government confirmed to a well known local news agency that a young bride and her three children have arrived safely at FrankfurtAirport after boarding a flight from northern Iraq. They had originally been living in a refugee camp in the Kurdish-controlled area of northern Syria.

There has been debate amongst European Union nations about taking back their own who have been a part of various Islamic militant outfits and give them a fair chance of rehabilitation. Malaysia has been the first one as a southeast Asian nation to initiate a system of rehabilitation of its own, choosing it as a moral responsibility and had urged the rest of the world to do the same.

France on its part had shown great concern and apprehension in rehabilitation program owing to the fact that militia has found pockets of terror cells within their own countries of origin and have not been able to rehabilitate after all.

It has therefore been seen that most European governments have generally refused to take back any citizens who joined any Islamist terror group during their insurgency in northern Syria, Iraq and elsewhere. This has become more significant after 2012 and in some cases, such individuals have stripped off their citizenship.

With the German judiciary system having a stronger hold on governance than the government itself, a court order has ensured that the 30-year-old woman and the children be brought back, more so because the constitutional right of protection and preservation was the priority. Up until now, most European nations have only agreed to take care of displaced and orphaned children from Syria and Iraq. But this is the first time, that an adult ISIS survivor has been taken back.

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