The German parliament (Bundestag) decided in the early hours of Friday morning to investigate the withdrawal of the German army from Afghanistan and the evacuation mission that followed by a parliamentary investigation committee.
The 12-member committee is set to identify mistakes made at the time and lessons learned from those events.
“Our aim is not to search for the perpetrators, but to do everything in our power to ensure that the mistakes that were clearly committed are not repeated in the future,” said committee chair Ralph Stegner of the Social Democrats.
The German army withdrew from Afghanistan in June 2021 after the Taliban returned to power in a regression that stunned the world.
The opposition Christian Alliance in Parliament also supported the proposal to form the committee, while only the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the Left party opposed it, and demanded an investigation of the entire German army’s mission in Afghanistan rather than a quick withdrawal investigation.
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