For many years, hundreds of thousands of Afghans fleeing struggle, persecution, and poverty have sought refuge in neighboring Iran.
However crossing the 921-kilometer-long border has change into more and more harmful for a lot of Afghans because the Iranian authorities violently crack down on unlawful migrants.
A minimum of 10 Afghans had been shot useless by Iranian border guards on December 1, in accordance with Taliban officers, after they entered Iran illegally from western Afghanistan’s Farah Province.
It is the newest in a rising variety of lethal incidents the place Afghan refugees and migrants have been shot and killed after crossing into Iran.
‘Lifeless Our bodies’
The our bodies of the slain Afghans had been handed over to their households on December 2. Taliban officers mentioned the ten Afghans had been killed whereas making an attempt to cross the border in the course of the evening. Two members of the group are nonetheless lacking, they mentioned.
The deaths triggered indignant protests in Herat, the biggest metropolis in western Afghanistan. Protestors, a few of whom knew the victims, mentioned they had been younger males who had been searching for jobs in Iran to offer for his or her impoverished households again dwelling.
