UNHCR: Syrian refugees expelled from their houses in Iraq
Syria-Iraq, Politics, 6/27/2003

The spokeswoman for the UNHCR said yesterday that Syrian refugees were expelled from their houses in Iraq under the threats of weapons since the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime in April.

Millitta Sonietch said "the Syrians face the same problem faced by the Palestinians, of whom 800 families were expelled from their homes," noting that "some stressed to me they were expelled under threat of weapons." She continued that "criminals came and threw them out and confiscated their properties and sold them before they controlled their flats."

She stressed that these expelled families which are numbered "are piled currently in the houses of other families or relatives," adding that the host families might be exposed, in turn, to expulsion, noting that "all are fearful that the same thing will happen to them." Some 140 Syrian families are living in Iraq in Haifa street in the downtown of Baghdad.

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