US races to find safe haven for Afghan translators in Central Asia as troop withdrawal nears
Matt Zeller, a US veteran who served in Afghanistan and a fellow at the Truman Center for National Security, said on Twitter Friday that the developments are "a profound disappointment & a complete abdication of our responsibility."
"@POTUS has completely failed if this comes to pass. Prediction: many of these Afghans will languish for years in refugee camps only to be eventually deported back to Afghanistan," he wrote.
"Make no mistake, outsourcing our problem to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan is the worst possible choice for the administration," Chris Purdy, director of Veterans for American Ideals at Human Rights First, said in a statement. "Not only is it an abdication of our responsibility to allies who risked their lives for American forces, but it also unnecessarily sets up a potential continuing human rights disaster for people who have already endured years of persecution and threats of violence for their service to the United States."
With the US withdrawal from Afghanistan just days away, the Biden administration is asking countries in Central Asia to temporarily house thousands of Afghan interpreters and translators while they wait for visas to the United States, according to a US official and another source familiar with...
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The American administration has no appetite to accommodate 50.000 Afghan interpreters along with their families.