A spirited discussion is underway in Trinidad about governmental intervention to bring back more than 100 locals who had idealistically left the southern Caribbean island to fight alongside ISIS in the Middle East in the past decade.
A representative team from the Islamic movement on the island has been meeting with top government officials, including Prime Minister Keith Rowley, about the need for state assistance in bringing back the group of mostly women and children—the majority of the men who enlisted to fight were killed or are unaccounted for, officials said.
Among the nations in the 15-member regional bloc, Trinidad has been known to have sent the largest group of Muslims to join the ISIS cause; 5 percent of the federation with Tobago’s population is Muslim.. Many of those who decided to join up with Islamic State fighters had come from communities in Rio Claro in southeast Trinidad, most of them traveling as families. Police said not a single individual made the trip.
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