Today, many European countries continue to deport Afghans who have had their asylum applications rejected to their war-torn homeland.
But the deportation of Afghan refugees from the host countries is worrying, the Afghan Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation said in a statement on Sunday.
They point to the escalation of violence by Taliban insurgents and a significant increase in coronary heart disease. In addition, the government is concerned about an increasing number of internally displaced persons and a new wave of asylum seekers abroad.
By Wednesday, Germany had deported 27 Afghans to Kabul.
The Taliban is gaining ground
Since the United States and NATO began withdrawing from Afghanistan in May, the rebel movement has stepped up its offensive against government forces.
On Friday, the Taliban claimed that the rebels controlled 85 percent of the country – around 250 of Afghanistan’s nearly 400 districts.
The security situation is getting worse, and the country is shaken almost daily by attacks.
Despite the start of a peace process, the conflict between the Taliban and the Afghan government has continued. In the last week, the Taliban have, among other things, conquered several important border crossings.
The extremist Islamist group IS is also active in Afghanistan and has carried out a number of terrorist attacks with heavy civilian casualties.
Controversial returns
Germany is among the countries that regularly send groups of Afghans by plane to Kabul. The Afghan men who landed in Kabul this week after being denied asylum are the 40th group to be deported from Germany to Afghanistan since December 2016.
In total, the German authorities have now returned 1,104 rejected asylum seekers to the country.
The forced expulsions have been highly controversial, and critics believe Afghanistan is too dangerous for the authorities to return people there.
Until the end of May this year had The police immigration unit transported six people from Norway to Afghanistan.
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