Once the relocation of members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO, MEK, PMOI, the Cult of Rajavi) from Camp Liberty Iraq, to Tirana Albania, started in 2013, members of the group were supposed to be recognized as refugees and Albania was supposed to be their permanent home before their final relocation in third countries.
\nSix years passed and about a thousand members left the MKO to live a normal life in the free world but their departure from the group resulted in legal problems for them. It seems that they are recognized as \u201crefugees\u201d only if they are members of the Cult of Rajavi.
\nIn June 2013 when the first group of the MKO members were resettled in Albaniab, the US State Department stated, \u201cThe permanent relocation of residents is essential to ensure the safety and security of residents.\u201d However, today those residents who are no more followers of Maryam Rajavi are left homeless and money less because the UN\u2019s Refugee and Migrant Service in Albania (RAMSA) closed its office in Tirana.
\nThe UN High Commissioner for Refugees allegedly relocated the MKO in Albania from Iraq on \u201chumanitarian grounds.\u201d \u201cBut, on their arrival they were not granted UN refugee status, nor have they been issued Albanian identity documents that would allow them to work or travel,\u201d Ann and Massoud Khodabandeh wrote in Lobelog. \u201cLack of residency rights also means that they cannot register for a bank account. They have no identity papers whatsoever, except the flimsy piece of paper used to fly them through international airspace from Baghdad to Tirana.\u201d
\nThis means that the MKO defectors\u2019 legal case is neither supervised by the UNHCR nor by the Albanian government. There is no perspective for them for moving to a third country and this is very pleasing for the MKO leaders. The UNHCR, the US and the Albanian government \u201chumanitarian\u201d aids are limited to the isolated barred members in the Cult of Rajavi.
\nThe closure of RAMSA is a gift to the MKO leaders who fear the increasing defection from the group which ends in the collapse of their cult.
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