The question is still in the room, literally: How should, how should the Federal Government behave in view of the increasing refugee movements in Afghanistan? The radical Islamic Taliban are on the advance to the extent that US and other NATO troops are withdrawing. They have already recaptured large parts of the country.
An example: the administration of American President Joe Biden. It has provided around 85 million euros to support aid organizations in the areas of migration and displacement, more precisely for “unexpected, urgent needs of refugees and migrants, victims of conflict and other people at risk because of the situation in Afghanistan”, such as the White House announced. And not to forget, for former US auxiliaries in Afghanistan.
Germany also has this problem. Thousands of Afghans worked as interpreters for the coalition forces during the war, 20,000 for the United States alone, and they fear retaliation.
The problem is on Chancellor Merkel’s table
In this country, however, there is discussion about how Afghan local staff who have worked for the Bundeswehr or the German police can be helped. The hopes are now no longer directed towards the government departments, defense and home affairs, but above all towards Prime Minister Angela Merkel, that she will direct it in the last few weeks of her term of office.
The subject is on her table, and Merkel has already stated: “I want us here to really give those who have helped us a lot a way out.” Time is of the essence. Around 490 helpers from the German Armed Forces and the police have been accepted. On average there are five family members.
For the many others, what Christoph Schwennicke wrote on t-online now applies: “Nevertheless, the road remains rocky for them. Bureaucratic. First of all, these people must submit what is known as a hazard report, i.e. actively show what indications there are that they are in danger. To do this, they have to make the dangerous route to Kabul from Mazar-i-Sharif, the former base camp of the Bundeswehr. If you then get a visa on the basis of this entry and after it has been checked, you have to go to Kabul again and organize the flight to Germany yourself. And pay yourself. “
Experts in aid organizations describe the behavior as hesitant and the numbers as shameful.
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