30 MKO members flee Camp Ashraf

"A number of members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization left their Camp for an unknown place", said an informed source in Diyala Province, Iraq.

"Thirty members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq organization escaped Camp Ashraf for an unknown place," a security source in Dyiala said in a phone interview to Buratha news agency.

"A number of members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization left their Camp for an unknown place", said an informed source in Diyala Province, Iraq. The group members are suffering anxiety and confusion following the decision by Iraqi government to relocate the camp, the source added.

The source who is an Iraqi Interior Ministry employee reported the escape of thirty residents on the condition of anonymity. He refused to give further information.

Last week an agreement signed by Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) Martin Kobler and National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of Iraq, Faleh Fayad.

The agreement established that the Iraqi government will relocate the residents of Camp Ashraf, to a temporary transit location where the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) will start a process of refugee status determination, a necessary first step for their resettlement outside Iraq.

 

Translated by Nejat NGO