More than 100 Iraqi refugees who sought asylum in Finland last year, have voluntarily returned to Baghdad saying, "we got tired of waiting for a solution."  

"We cannot say that treatment there was not good, but we got tired of waiting without a solution. We'd been there for seven months. So, we came back," one of them said.

"I'd been there for eight months...I couldn't do anything for myself, so how can I do something for others? I could not build my happiness on the misery of others. My family is more important to me." 

Now, the returnees face another struggle...rebuilding the lives they once thought they'd left behind.

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