Iraq's Refugees Head Home

World | July 30, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00

The first organised group of refugees to return to Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein is heading for the southern city of Basra. Ten buses and trucks carrying more than 240 refugees left the Rafha refugee camp in the Saudi desert late on Tuesday, marking the start of a UN initiative to help hundreds of thousands of Iraqis return home. All the refugees in the first convoy volunteered to go home, but many others are reluctant because of fears about their safety.

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