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Meet my mate 'G'.
'G' worked for the US army, driving trucks / diggers and loading supplies..when the US army left, it allowed the Taliban back into his village...they started their reprisals...G's best mate was abducted at gunpoint, and reappeared a couple of days later on...
'G' worked for the US army, driving trucks / diggers and loading supplies..when the US army left, it allowed the Taliban back into his village...they started their reprisals...G's best mate was abducted at gunpoint, and reappeared a couple of days later on...
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my friends doorstep..his best mate had been dismembered, decapitated and left in a bin bag..the 'implication' was that my mate was next. He left that night, under the cover of darkness and walked out of the country over mountains carrying only the barest mimimum of posessions.
my friends doorstep..his best mate had been dismembered, decapitated and left in a bin bag..the 'implication' was that my mate was next. He left that night, under the cover of darkness and walked out of the country over mountains carrying only the barest mimimum of posessions.
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..leaving his mother to look after his two young boys (his wife having died the year before). The boys were at risk of either being executed or taken by the taliban to indoctrinate and fight jihad...so they spent most of the next three years living in a cellar, hidden...
..leaving his mother to look after his two young boys (his wife having died the year before). The boys were at risk of either being executed or taken by the taliban to indoctrinate and fight jihad...so they spent most of the next three years living in a cellar, hidden...
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My buddy eventually got himself over into Iran (literally stepping over dead bodies on the way) where he worked ridiculous hours in piss poor conditions to earn some dosh...he crossed the desert in a refridgerated truck and was lucky to live..after more close calls..
My buddy eventually got himself over into Iran (literally stepping over dead bodies on the way) where he worked ridiculous hours in piss poor conditions to earn some dosh...he crossed the desert in a refridgerated truck and was lucky to live..after more close calls..
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(robberies beatings and stuff ) he eventually managed to get himself into Europe in the engine compartment of a train where he and his 2 mates were deafened and nearly boiled for their passage...getting himself up to the 'jungle' he spent the next few months being...
(robberies beatings and stuff ) he eventually managed to get himself into Europe in the engine compartment of a train where he and his 2 mates were deafened and nearly boiled for their passage...getting himself up to the 'jungle' he spent the next few months being...
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.. teargassed and beaten by the CRS, breaking his arm..finally, as they burnt down the camp and destroyed his few posessions, he managed to hook up with a local NGO, they sent him off to a centre nearby to apply for his refugee status which he eventually got after...
.. teargassed and beaten by the CRS, breaking his arm..finally, as they burnt down the camp and destroyed his few posessions, he managed to hook up with a local NGO, they sent him off to a centre nearby to apply for his refugee status which he eventually got after...
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..a lot of research and questioning...he now holds down two shitty jobs (Fast food resto and cleaning) that the manager assures us no local kids are willing to do (certainly as well and dependably) and sends most of his wages over to his mother..
..a lot of research and questioning...he now holds down two shitty jobs (Fast food resto and cleaning) that the manager assures us no local kids are willing to do (certainly as well and dependably) and sends most of his wages over to his mother..
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..(his mum had been forced out of Afghanistan and now lives in a camp in Pakistan). He got a friend to take his boys to the (relative) safety of Pakistan..his friend risked losing his job/ life doing this for him..and after a year and a half of incredibly fustrating paperwork.
..(his mum had been forced out of Afghanistan and now lives in a camp in Pakistan). He got a friend to take his boys to the (relative) safety of Pakistan..his friend risked losing his job/ life doing this for him..and after a year and a half of incredibly fustrating paperwork.
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.and meticulously processed red tape he eventually got the permission to have his boys join him in France..they've settled down in a cheap flat and already the boys speak a decent level of French.
My Afghan buddy is one of the most honorable, brave, decent, polite, humble..
.and meticulously processed red tape he eventually got the permission to have his boys join him in France..they've settled down in a cheap flat and already the boys speak a decent level of French.
My Afghan buddy is one of the most honorable, brave, decent, polite, humble..
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..strong and honest people I have ever met, anywhere, he's a brilliant chess player and a good archer. I take a very dim view of any c**t that thinks he should ever be 'repatriated' to Afghanistan..
..strong and honest people I have ever met, anywhere, he's a brilliant chess player and a good archer. I take a very dim view of any c**t that thinks he should ever be 'repatriated' to Afghanistan..
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..or otherwise forcibly removed from his new country of residence (and hopefully, one day, 'nationality').. purely on the strength of his skin colour and religion.
That is all.
..or otherwise forcibly removed from his new country of residence (and hopefully, one day, 'nationality').. purely on the strength of his skin colour and religion.
That is all.
