#Dontforgetafghanistan

For a few days, the radical Islamist Taliban in Kabul and other cities in Afghanistan have been carrying out large-scale house searches. Human rights activists and local forces left behind are in fear, burn documents, delete data and keep themselves hidden. The sling of the Taliban apparently increases closer and closer while the world looks at Ukraine. This is precisely why the Federal Government must act and decide on the new recording program as quickly as possible.

 

"The Taliban claim that they are looking for smugglers and thieves during the house searches, but the truth is: they are looking for activists and shyly their opponents." Said Abdul Wase Sayedi, which we were able to evacuate last year thanks to the Kabul Airbrücke from Afghanistan. Many of his colleagues with whom he has argued for the rights of girls are still in Afghanistan. “I'm worried about my colleagues who have stayed helplessly. I hope that nobody is killed, detained or tortured, «says Sayedi.

Pictures and videos of devastated apartments can be seen on social media. They were searched by the Taliban. Former local powers post photos of documents that they burn so that they do not fall into the hands of the Taliban.

"We have been shouting for help for six months, but nobody listens to"

“We have been shouting for help for six months, but nobody listens. Our situation worsens. Lack of food, financial problems and changing apartments made us very tired, «writes a former employee of a GIZ project on Twitter. According to Al Jazeera, the Taliban street patrols in Kabul have reinforced and built roadblocks on important intersections where they searched vehicles or check the identity of the occupants.

Relatives of people who were evacuated to Germany are also threatened. "If the Taliban find that the activists are already abroad, they threaten their family members to increase the pressure and to silence them," reports Said Abdul Wase Sayedi. On a demonstration for the admission of endangered people, he protested on Saturday in Berlin together with Terre des Hommes and other organizations before the Federal Foreign Office under the motto "#dontforgetafhanistan".

»We as friends of the women's rights activists, human rights activists, journalists, media, social and cultural activists, call for the German government not to forget these people. Your life and that of your relatives is in great danger. They have the same right to be supported and evacuated as I do, even if they have not worked for German organizations, «emphasized Sayedi there. You can find his full speech here .

This requirement is now particularly acute. People can still be saved. How much time remains for it is unclear, because the sling of the Taliban is increasingly closer and some indicates that they have exactly in view when Europe and the USA look and when they are busy with other crises.