Finnish minister withdraws controversial comment on social media

A Finnish minister, Katri Kulmuni, who received serious criticism for her controversial comment regarding the matter of the repatriation of women and children from the Kurdish-led camp for the foreign IS sympathisers in Syria, has withdrawn her comment from the social media handle she maintains in the popular social media platform of Instagram.

She, earlier, through her handle, asked her followers to leave their opinion on whether only children should be repatriated or both mother and children should be repatriated.

At least more than three dozens of women and children in the camp, named al-Hol, are from Finland.

The country’s politicians are divided over whether women live in the camp should be repatriated or not, though there are no dispute among them on the view that children in the camp are the victims of the war against the ISIS and they should be repatriated at the earliest.

The politicians of Finland are worried about the potential damage that can be made to the nation if the radicalised women are simply repatriated without the assistance of a proper deradicalisation process.

The people in the camp live in a very poor condition. They are highly vulnerable to diseases, hunger and many related issues, as they live with limited resources.

Many western countries have already repatriated their citizens from the camp.

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