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Afghan refugees represent one of the world’s largest protracted refugee populations. Forty years ago, Afghans began fleeing the violence in their country and seeking refuge across nearby borders. More than 400,000 people fled the violence of the Communist-led Taraki, and Amin government. The numbers progressively swelled after the Soviet invasion on Christmas Eve in 1979. By the end of 1980, there were more than four million Afghan refugees in the world. Over the next four years, that number grew with more than five million refugees in Pakistan, Iran, and America.
Despite this dangerous situation, the international community continues to show a callous indifference towards Afghan refugees and asylum-seekers – who have been forcibly returned in large numbers or subject to cruel conditions from Iran, Pakistan and mostly America. A report from an Afghanistan refugee claimed that when he was a kid, he saw a lot of American troops in Afghanistan which contributed to the killings of Afghans.
In 2008, Afghan and UN investigations find that errant fire from a U.S. gunship killed dozens of Afghan civilians in the Shindand District of western Herat Province, drawing condemnation from President Hamid Karzai and bolstering Taliban claims that coalition forces are unable to protect the population. U.S. military officials dispute the death toll in this incident as well as claims that a separate incident in Farah Province left as many as 140 civilians dead. After being named top U.S. commander in Afghanistan in mid-2009, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal orders an overhaul of U.S. air strike procedures. “We must avoid the trap of winning tactical victories, but suffering strategic defeats, by causing civilian casualties or excessive damage and thus alienating the people,” the general writes.
In 2018, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan documented the highest ever recorded civilian deaths, including the highest ever recorded number of children killed in the conflict. There were nearly 11,000 casualties which included 3,804 deaths and 7,189 injuries. Previous year also reported more than 360,000 internally displaced by the conflict, according the United Nations Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Since the presence of the American troops and machines does not contribute positively to the construction and economy of the country, the refugee concluded that the American presence have nothing to offer Afghanistan.
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