A total of around 70- or 75,000 people were heading for the border or already at the border. |
If you try and send convoys in and you've got no security, you risk losing the convoys. It's incredibly difficult to set foot even a few 100 meters inside that country right now. |
If you try and send convoys in and you've got no security, you risk losing the convoys. It's incredibly difficult to set foot even a few 100 meters inside that country right now. |
On the one hand, it's nasty to see it because you see what's going on. On the other hand, there are going to be a lot of happy women and children tonight because this is the first time we've had some men come out (in a while). |
The Iranians told us that if people really needed to cross they could cross. They asked us to help out and we said we would. |
We're trying to empty these camps as soon as possible for a whole variety of reasons. The most important is danger. |