Canada promised to resettle 40,000 refugees from Afghanistan, but after nine months only 12,605 have arrived.
said it could take two years to fulfill the Canadian government’s promise of bringing 40,000 Afghan refugees to Canada.
Canada currently has no diplomatic or military presence in Afghanistan, and the government says getting people out of the country remains a challenge. For those who remain in Afghanistan, they say it’s a challenge to just get their phone calls to Canadian officials returned. “I reached the airport but it was crowded and horrible,” said a man who also represented the Canadian government in court in Afghanistan.“At the end I just made a decision that okay, I have to go and then I will work to get them to safety,” he said from Colorado.
Both men worked for Saeeq Shajjan’s law firm in Afghanistan. Shajjan, who was able to escape Kabul for Canada, said he fears the Taliban is set to increase efforts to find those who helped foreign governments. “To this day they are very much going after the security forces in Afghanistan to make sure that there is no armed resistance against them,” he told CTV News from Toronto. “Then definitely they’re going to come after lawyers, they will come after judges, they will come after other civil rights activists.”
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