Two Afghan refugee camps on the country's western border with the Islamic Republic of Iran have been closed, the French medical organization Doctors without Borders said Tuesday.
"The Makaki and Mile 46 camps have definitively been shut. There were 10,500 Afghans who remained there until the past few weeks," Bruno Jochum, the organization's director in Tehran, told AFP.
Many of the Afghans were returned to their homes scattered throughout the country by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Migration Organization.
Doctors without Borders supplied medical relief to an estimated 11,000 refugees in the two camps opened by the International Committee of the Red Cross in November 2001, after the United States launched its war to hunt down the Al-Qaeda terror network in Afghanistan. (Albawaba.com)
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