🇦🇫 ✌🏽Afghanistan Statement:
After a two-decade war in Afghanistan that ravaged through every village, leaving no family unscathed, US military forces abruptly left, leaving an ill-equipped Afghanistan to its own devices.
#AfghanistanNotSafe #RefugeesWelcome
After a two-decade war in Afghanistan that ravaged through every village, leaving no family unscathed, US military forces abruptly left, leaving an ill-equipped Afghanistan to its own devices.
#AfghanistanNotSafe #RefugeesWelcome
This is the last of a long list of foreign military forces present who in addition to “ensuring safety”, have killed countless civilians during violent night-time raids, predator drone strikes and other military operations for which investigations will never see the light of day.
In the last weeks, the Taliban have swept through dozens of districts, conquering vast areas and now control over half of the country. Internally displaced civilians have started crowding in cities, exacerbating existing issues of unemployment, hunger and lack of medical aid.
Displacement—internal and external—and migration due to war are not hypothetical: it is already a reality for thousands of families. The Afghan government is incapable of tending to the needs of people already on the move to escape violence and European governments are unwilling.
This is not an issue far removed from us. For years, countries in which we live have been militarily involved in Afghanistan, (mis)leading asymmetric warfare that impacted the lives of millions of Afghans. We are deeply intertwined with this issue and must speak up.
⚖️ Demands
1. We demand an immediate EU-wide ban on all deportations. While Germany stopped deporting directly to Afghanistan, via Turkey Afghan nationals are still being deported from Germany. In the current climate, this amounts to a death sentence.
1. We demand an immediate EU-wide ban on all deportations. While Germany stopped deporting directly to Afghanistan, via Turkey Afghan nationals are still being deported from Germany. In the current climate, this amounts to a death sentence.
2. We stand in solidarity with people of Afghan origin, and demand German family reunification laws be made accessible to more family members and that the procedure is accelerated.
3. We demand an end to the EU’s detention of people in inhumane camps at its borders with no access to basic amenities or freedom of movement.
4. We demand an end to the EU’s policies of illegal pushbacks at its borders, which is intended to prevent people from seeking asylum.
4. We demand an end to the EU’s policies of illegal pushbacks at its borders, which is intended to prevent people from seeking asylum.
5. We demand that the EU facilitate the movement of people at risk across the continent to access immediate protection.
6. We call on all Jewish organisations to join us in our condemnation of deportations of people to Afghanistan.
“For you too once were strangers in your own land...”
#RefugeesWelcome #AfghanistanUnderAttack
“For you too once were strangers in your own land...”
#RefugeesWelcome #AfghanistanUnderAttack
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