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Afghans make up 18 percent of the some 387,000 who arrived on Europe’s shores via the Mediterranean so far this year.
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“Everybody is leaving Afghanistan,” Sherzad said. “The only people who will be left there are President Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah.” Ghani shares power with Abdullah, who is referred to as Afghanistan’s CEO.
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And it has been expensive. So far, Sherzad has spent $15,000 to get from Kabul to this town on the border between Serbia and Hungary, which they reached in mid-September. To reach his dream of resettling his children in Europe, Sherzad had to withdraw his life savings and sell his car and almost all their belongings.
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The conditions along the journey have been worse than he and his wife imagined. In Greece they slept outside on the sidewalk while they waited for paperwork to board a ferry to the mainland. The crossing through Macedonia was somewhat smoother, and aid stations had plenty of water, food and medical assistance for families with children.
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Some Afghan refugees complain that the Syrians get preferential treatment from European nations because there are so many of them and the Syrian civil war is so new.
“Europe has forgotten about the war in Afghanistan,” Sherzad said.
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A close friend who made it to Iran watched as Iranian border police shot and killed seven members of his group. He and two others returned to Afghanistan, but he said he will try again as soon as he can come up with $1,300 to $1,700 to pay a smuggler.
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A few of his friends have secured visas to the U.S. through a special immigrant visa program available since 2012 for Afghans who worked for the U.S. government in some capacity and can prove they are being threatened by the Taliban. But the application process is extremely selective and can take months if not years.
This month Ghani made a public statement asking young Afghans not to leave the country. The Australian and Germany embassies in Afghanistan have run television ads and posters warning Afghans not to make the dangerous journeys across the Indian Ocean or the Mediterranean Sea.
Afghans make up 18 percent of the some 387,000 who arrived on Europe’s shores via the Mediterranean so far this year.
...
“Everybody is leaving Afghanistan,” Sherzad said. “The only people who will be left there are President Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah.” Ghani shares power with Abdullah, who is referred to as Afghanistan’s CEO.
...
And it has been expensive. So far, Sherzad has spent $15,000 to get from Kabul to this town on the border between Serbia and Hungary, which they reached in mid-September. To reach his dream of resettling his children in Europe, Sherzad had to withdraw his life savings and sell his car and almost all their belongings.
...
The conditions along the journey have been worse than he and his wife imagined. In Greece they slept outside on the sidewalk while they waited for paperwork to board a ferry to the mainland. The crossing through Macedonia was somewhat smoother, and aid stations had plenty of water, food and medical assistance for families with children.
...
Some Afghan refugees complain that the Syrians get preferential treatment from European nations because there are so many of them and the Syrian civil war is so new.
“Europe has forgotten about the war in Afghanistan,” Sherzad said.
...
A close friend who made it to Iran watched as Iranian border police shot and killed seven members of his group. He and two others returned to Afghanistan, but he said he will try again as soon as he can come up with $1,300 to $1,700 to pay a smuggler.
...
A few of his friends have secured visas to the U.S. through a special immigrant visa program available since 2012 for Afghans who worked for the U.S. government in some capacity and can prove they are being threatened by the Taliban. But the application process is extremely selective and can take months if not years.
This month Ghani made a public statement asking young Afghans not to leave the country. The Australian and Germany embassies in Afghanistan have run television ads and posters warning Afghans not to make the dangerous journeys across the Indian Ocean or the Mediterranean Sea.
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