A woman who arrived at an initial reception center in Brandenburg together with other local workers from Afghanistan is sitting in a tent in August 2021.
Image: Patrick Pleul/dpa
More than 28,000 people from Afghanistan have received a German acceptance letter. About a third of these were flown in. For the left, this shows that the federal government is not doing enough.
BAccording to its own information, in mid-January the federal government issued around 20,400 acceptances for local Afghan workers and their families. There are also around 8,000 additional commitments for the admission of “particularly endangered Afghans and their nuclear families”. This emerges from a response from the Foreign Office to a request from the left-wing faction in the Bundestag, which is available to the newspapers of the Funke media group.
According to the federal government, more than 9,300 Afghan local workers, endangered people such as journalists or human rights activists and their closest family members have entered Germany since May 15, 2021 – i.e. about a third of the people who have a commitment.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that “many people who had been accepted for admission had already left Afghanistan on their own” and were in third countries such as Pakistan.
Many local workers are still in Afghanistan
In principle, former local staff could continue to file threat reports with German authorities. Even months after the radical Islamic Taliban took power, according to the information, there are still thousands of Afghan local staff from the Bundeswehr, the Foreign Office and the Development Ministry in the crisis-ridden state on the Hindu Kush.
The left-wing faction clearly criticizes the government’s commitment. “Only a third of the endangered people with an exception commitment have so far been able to come to Germany. So many months after the Taliban took power, this is a frightening result,” said Clara Bünger, member of the Bundestag.
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