KABUL (TOLONews): With the continued deportation of Afghan migrants from neighboring countries, Kabul’s migrant camp has become one of the temporary reception centers for them.
Among them, a number of deportees from Iran are facing serious problems such as lack of shelter, unemployment, and uncertainty, and they are calling on the caretaker government to urgently address their situation.
Abdul Razaq, one of the recently returned migrants from Iran who spent nine years in that country, has a different account of the difficult path of migration. He says that they were arrested and deported by Iranian police without consideration for their situation.
Abdul Razzaq, who has now been in the Kabul camp for two days and nights, is concerned about the future of himself and his family.
He said: “It has been two days and nights that we are in the camp. We only brought the clothes we were wearing and nothing else. They didn’t even give us time to collect our belongings. They said ‘Go.’ I asked, is this what Islam teaches?”
Several other deportees from Iran in the camp shared similar accounts.
Abdul Qudus, a deportee from Iran, said: “I am thinking that we have been forced to pitch a tent somewhere and make ourselves a shelter. I call on the Islamic Emirate to help those who are forced and in need.”
Abdul Saboor, another deportee from Iran, added: “Three of us came. We had been there for four years, and all our possessions remained there.”
Earlier, the International Organization for Migration had warned that Afghanistan is facing one of the largest waves of forced deportations of migrants from neighboring countries, and that in the current calendar year alone, 1.5 million people have been deported and returned to the country.
