28,000 IDPs from Donbas return home in November
People return not because of political reasons, but because of the lack of state support in provision of temporary housing, employment, and social protection.
As the Kharkiv Human Rights Group website reports, the increase in the number of those returning is shown by the official data of the entry-exit checkpoints on the border with the ATO area.
The NGO “Luhansk community” reports that the number of people crossing the boundary line in both directions in 2015 has been about the same each month. That is, people have visited their relatives and houses and returned to the government-controlled territory.
The situation has changed since July as the number of those returning to the territories of the self-proclaimed “DPR” and “LPR” has started to grow following the decrease in the intensity of fighting.
“Thus, during July-November 2015, 545,300 people left for the occupied territory through the ‘Novotroitske’ entry-exit checkpoint and 469,200 people returned to the government-controlled territory of Ukraine. At the same time, 492,900 people left for the occupied territory while 450,100 returned, through the ‘Zaitseve’ entry-exit checkpoint,” reads the statement.
The number of those who returned to the occupied territories in November increased to 28,000.
As the NGO “Luhansk community” notes, people return to the occupied territory not because of political reasons, but because of the lack of state support in provision of temporary housing, employment, and social protection, sufficient to support their families.
As reported, according to the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, every fourth surveyed IDP is not going to come home for a permanent place of residence in the next few years.
