Dozens of Afghans who were promised asylum by Germany are dead

The German government is aware that dozens of Afghans who had worked for German state institutions, as well as other at-risk Afghan citizens who were scheduled to be removed from the Asian country, have died while waiting.

According to the defense ministry in Berlin, some 25 Afghans who worked on it are dead. Of these, the deaths of 12 had “natural” causes or were due to accidents. Six were killed, but it is unclear whether the motive for the killings was that they had collaborated with the Bundeswehr, the German military. The causes of death of the remaining seven are not clear.

The German Agency found that different ministries give different accounts. The State Department, for example, talks about six deaths of Afghans who worked on its behalf.

Almost the entire German military mission left Afghanistan in June 2021. The Sunni fundamentalist Taliban took over the entire country a short time later, on August 15. Their return to action prompted fears of retaliation against those who supported the armed forces of NATO member states and other Western institutions or worked for the internationally-backed government. However, no large-scale retaliatory campaign has been identified, as far as is known.

Germany took part in the operation to remove people who had supported its military and other public institutions in the summer of 2021, but there were many more people who hoped to leave than could ultimately be transported in that chaotic undertaking.

The German government had promised protection to over 36,000 people, military personnel, collaborators of its forces or institutions and other vulnerable persons, as well as their immediate family members.

According to information from the news magazine Der Spiegel, more than two-thirds of these people were able to leave Afghanistan, most of them through Pakistan.

A major problem for those seeking to leave the country is that a passport is required. But the new Taliban regime rarely grants documents.

The data on the deaths that came to the knowledge of the German Agency arose from the answers of ministries to a question submitted by the parliamentarian of the party The Left (Die Linke) Clara Bunger.

Mrs. Bunger criticized the fact that dozens of Afghans who were promised protection by Germany have died and the “criminal” responsibilities of the then federal government. “The new government has not even been able to transfer to safe locations those whom the country promised to welcome,” he added.

A committee of the Bundestag, the German lower house, is investigating the chaotic withdrawal of the German army from the country and the cases of people still waiting to be transferred to Germany.

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