Operation: Jusan: A Story of Rescue and Repatriation from Islamic State Karin Erlan
Operation: Jusan: A Story of Rescue and Repatriation from Islamic State Karin Erlan Between January and September 2019, the government of Kazakhstan carried out five humanitarian missions to…
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Operation: Jusan: A Story of Rescue and Repatriation from Islamic State Karin Erlan
Between January and September 2019, the government of Kazakhstan carried out five humanitarian missions to repatriate more than 600 of its citizens from Syria. The women had left Kazakhstan to become part of Islamic State - either out of personal conviction, or at the request of their jihadi husbands. Thirty-three were adult males; the rest were women and children.
Others had been born amidst the horror of the war in Syria and Iraq, and the consequences of violent ideology; they knew nothing else of life. Some of the children had gone with them. Collectively, these missions were known as Operation: Jusan (the jusan shrub, or wormwood, is symbolic for Kazkahs of home on the steppe).
Erlan Karin's involvement took him from the planning stages to the extensive de-radicalisation and rehabilitation programmes that followed the airlifts. Here he reveals the full story of a high-stakes mission
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