Albania

Khodabandeh: It would be wrong to ignore the Mojahedin in Albania

The actual risk to Albania will be if the MEK is not disbanded as a group. Disbanding means that each refugee should be treated as an individual. They must be de-radicalised and then integrated back into normal society as ordinary citizens with homes and jobs and families. The MEK must not be allowed to re-organise as a quasi-military group. Clearly, Albania is not as strong as western European countries in this respect and so the process …

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Can Albania deradicalise Mojahedin Khalq Rajavi cult

It is impossible to ignore the fact that MEK members are radicalized to the core. They are not ordinary refugees. Enough of them have been trained in Iraq by the former Saddam regime for terrorist activities as well as forgery, intelligence, military operations and even torture methods, to make them extremely dangerous. Above all, the nature of the MEK leadership style is cultic. This means the followers …

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Albania to take in all Camp Liberty residents

U.S. officials traveling with Kerry said that while the reforms are needed for their own sake as well as E.U. membership, they also were key to Albania’s fulfilling a commitment to relocate thousands of members of the exiled Iranian Mujahedeen-e-Khalq opposition group. Saddam Hussein had welcomed the Iranian group into Iraq in the 1980s, but Iraq’s current Shiite-led government considers their presence illegal. The group lost …

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A group of 22 TTL residents moved to Albania

Eventually under the pressure of UNHCR and UNAMI office in Iraq, the cult leaders forced to comply and the relocation process resumed at February4th, 2016. So as a group of 22 residents of Temporary Transit Location (Camp Liberty) transferred to Albania, Peyvand-e Rahayee Website reported.

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Rajavi to smuggle wanted members to Europe

Three of “most wanted” high ranking members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO) seek to escape from Camp Liberty.Iraqi informed sources declared that another group of 20 to 30 residents of Camp Liberty including three high ranking members are supposed to be relocated in Albania, according to the FNA.

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26 more Camp Liberty residents moved to Albania

Based on the UNHCR statement of December14 by the end of 2015, more than 1,100 residents were due to be relocated to a third country. This represents more than a third of the residents registered by UNHCR.Albania has housed more than three-quarters of those transferred.Based on the statement some 1900 people have remained in Camp Liberty by now…

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What’s going on in the MKO camp in Albania?

Despite Rajavi’s insistence on concentration of the group forces in a single base like camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty, here in Tirana, he has taken a new policy; he prevents the accumulation of members. Particularly, recently relocated ones are kept in small rooms. The windows of the building are covered by newspapers because they want to prevent members from seeing the outside world…

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