Germany pushes reinforced Afghans. In the first two months of this year, less than half of the asylum have been recognized applications. Sandra Peter man spoke with Deportees in their war-ridden homeland.
His sentences are short and pressed: “I’m scared; I’m not safe here; I don’t know – I can’t live here”. It’s hard to come up with Rahmat into the conversation. The young man is not really so. The name he thought up. Rahmat doesn’t want to appear in the media. Immediately after his return, he had given many Interviews. Of the Public, he had hoped for a quick return to Germany. But he is still in Kabul. And his fear of living here grows. The 23-year-old meets alone with the German wave, because he desperately clings to any contact from Germany.
Deportation by Charter flight
Rahmat was on the first Charter plane, the 14. December 2016, with 34 of rejected asylum seekers from Frankfurt to Kabul, flew. Since then, the Federal Republic of Germany has chartered each month, a machine that young Afghan men to deport a total of 107 by the end of April. Each of these flights cost more than 300,000 euros. The costs shall be borne by FRONTEX, the guard of the European Agency for border and coastal. Afghanistan has signed with the EU and with individual countries, such as Germany, readmission agreements. The Afghan government has committed itself to the Deportees. In return, the European partners have pledged further financial assistance. Around two-thirds of the Afghan budget is financed from abroad.
Rahmat is nervous and erratic. He chain-smokes. On his forehead, small beads of sweat form again and again. He used the checkered cloth around his neck to hide his face, if the questions are too hard. His father was an important commander, the Taliban had murdered him eight years ago. “If they find me, then kill me, too.” However, the Federal office for Migration and refugees did not believe him and rejected his asylum request.
From Aalen forced to Kabul: Rahmat is not coping in his home
The young man was born in the Panjshir valley, and grew up in the contested province of Ghazni. From there he had fled in the spring of 2011, Iran, Turkey, Greece, Italy and France to Germany. The escape had cost more than $ 10,000; the family had come up for it. Today, this family plays no role in his life. His mother and brother were gone. There since his escape, no contact. Back to Ghazni Rahmat does not want to. Just a few days ago, the Taliban attacked the capital of the province again.
Aalen, near Stuttgart, was six years his center of life to the deportation has caught me by surprise: “This is so unfair. I’ve spent a lot of time in Germany, more than six years. I have done nothing wrong. I went to school, learned the language, and well-behaved.”
Lifeline Smartphone
In Kabul, Rahmat now lives in the family home of an Afghan friend from Germany. For Rent. For 60 Euro in the month. But Living with Strangers is too comfortable. “I go there only to Sleep, I don’t want to be a burden. The days I spend outside.”
During the day he wanders the land aimlessly, and asks for work. However, Kabul is full of job search – and of despair. In the last year of the war has made more than 600,000 people to be refugees in their own country. This year, more than 90,000 are at it again. At the same time the neighboring countries of Pakistan and Iran, push the massive Afghan refugees – nearly 700,000 people last year. Many of the returnees are moving to the Metropolitan area of Kabul. The city is unable to cope with the onslaught. The Slums and refugee camps grow.
Vanishing point Kabul: The city is overwhelmed with hundreds of thousands of internal refugees
Rahmat clings to his Smartphone. He chats with them for hours. Whatsapp, viber, and facebook are his bridges to Germany. A supporter of the Baden-Württemberg sends him money on a regular basis: EUR 150 per month. Thus, he is through. He could apply through the International organization for Migration (IOM), a unique German reintegration assistance of up to 700 euros. For this, he would have to present a business idea or a evidence of education and Training. However, Rahmat does not even have a valid Afghan papers. He is lethargic; his fear of living in Kabul is growing. He misses freedom and security. Since his return half a year ago it gave in to the fortress-built capital of seven heavy attacks. Car bombs, suicide bombers are part of everyday life.
Fear of shame
For Fareshta Qedeez of the International Psychosocial Organisation IPSO Rahmat is a classic case. “If a young person strongly identifies with the other company and then sent back, then it is difficult, in a traditional, conservative society with clear boundaries.”
IPSO care in the war-ridden Afghanistan in order to mentally hurt people, talks and therapies. The 40 years of war have left the society with deep scars. The organization is supported by the Federal foreign office, and belongs also to the points of contact for deported asylum seekers. IPSO-helper to wait at the airport in Kabul, when a new Charter-lands machine. About half of the previously Deported advantage of the offer, take help, reported Qedeez. However, the threshold is big: “shame is a dominant Element in the Afghan society. We will do everything we can to shame to keep away from us. To fail, means in the Afghan society of great shame. The Deportees feel it was a disgraceful failure.”
To support Deported with the “shame” supposed “failure” finish: Fareshta Quedeez
Severely injured on the floor
In some cases, has succeeded to open the Deportees through empathic conversations, new perspectives, but not in all, explained the young psychologist. “Especially those who were directly away from the workplace and deported, are here lost in Kabul in total. The don’t trust anyone. Your self-esteem is destroyed.”
Isa does not want to talk, but to run away. The best immediately. In Iran. From there, for the first time in Turkey. The main thing back on the road. Isa is trying the money necessary for the tractors to be found. Isa was among the eighteen young men who were deported in February to Kabul. It Isa had lived prior to his escape to Germany for almost 20 years in Pakistan.
Today, the 29-year-old lives in a shelter house of the Afghan relief organization AMASO. Isa makes the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani for his plight: “Afghanistan behaves like someone who is beaten up, severely injured on the floor and still claims that he’s fine. This is exactly what our government has signed the agreement with Germany. Our President knows exactly how unsafe the country is.”
A Waste Of Money?
The deportations were “a waste of money,” says Abdul Ghafoor, head of the aid organization AMASO. He has built in Kabul, a network for refugees and migrants. About half of the Deportees from Europe, to which it is in contact with, would leave Afghanistan, at the latest after three months. Can Ghafoor understand: “What the managers are doing because, in order for the Afghan youth to flee instead? What does our government, in order to ensure more security? The Taliban are stronger today than they have ever been since 2001. At that time, there were no self-proclaimed Islamic state. Today, there is him. Why are the young people? For what?”
More troops for more security? U.S. Secretary of defense Mattis in the helicopter approach to Kabul
The Afghan government is divided. It controls just under 60 percent of the country. In addition to the Taliban about 20 terrorist groups and dozens of militias fighting on the Afghan battlefield. The growth in the economy slumped after the withdrawal of more than 100,000 international soldiers. United States and NATO prepare to send more troops to Afghanistan to stabilize the situation.
At the German deportation policy that changes nothing. Alone from January to April, the competent Federal office for Migration and refugees has declined to around 32,000 asylum applications from Afghans, significantly more than in the entire previous year.