Travel to somalia each year for “holidays”.

The Norwegian government has started forcefully repatriating Somali asylum seekers. Of course they’re being heavily criticized by the usual crowd of bleeding heart liberals at the UN, and other more local naive do-gooders for this. These idiots claim that this repatriation is very dangerous and borders on cruelty. But if that is the case, that it’s very dangerous for them to return to Somalia, then why do Somalis living in this country choose to travel back to their country of origin on a regular basis, to visit family and friends? Maybe because it’s not so dangerous after all?

Here’s a story from NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Company).

A lot of Somalis living in Norway travel to Somalia each year for “holidays”, even though they claim they are being persecuted in that country. The summer is peak season for these types of “holidays”. The majority of the Somalis who make this journey go via Dubai, a country that has many direct flights to Somalia, says Hugo Fjeld, Norwegian consul to Dubai. He can reveal that the Somalis in question are equipped with Norwegian travel documents or Norwegian passports.

Prince Hassan, Somali living in Dubai, who has worked as a consultant for Scandinavian TV companies in the Gulf area for years, estimates that at least 50 000 Somalis living in Northern Europe ( Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway) travel to Somalia each year via Dubai. He believes that a couple of thousands Somalis equipped with Norwegian travel documents make this journey every year.

Rina Kristmoen, at the Norwegian embassy in Kenya, confirms that a lot of Somalis travel to Somalia via Kenya. Some travel back and forth to visit family. To her knowledge these Somalis travel to all parts of the country, including Mogadishu. Kristmoen says that a lot of them wish to visit friends and family, and that they themselves consider the country to be safe.

The head of foreign affairs of the Norwegian police, Arne Jørgen Olafsen, says that his unit has received information about extensive travelling to Somalia involving people who have been granted political asylum in Norway. He says that this kind of travelling are totally unacceptable, and that the police will prosecute any Somali asylum seekers who is caught returning from Somalia.


Yeah right. A lot of asylum seekers have been caught travelling back to their countries of origin, after they’ve been granted political asylum in Norway, and the police haven't prosecute a single one of them. The Norwegian UDI (home office) has instructed them to “lay off”.