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June 29, 2022 01:30 pm
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/c/23170906/homeland-unsettled-afghan-refugee-crisis-housing-bay-area
Unsettled
The Abdils decided Afghanistan was no longer safe after their 14-year-old son, Abdul-Azim, was kidnapped on his way home from school. For years, the Taliban abducted children for ransom or used them as leverage in negotiating with the Afghan police. As much as it pained them to abandon their son, Fazela and Hakeem Abdil had other children — two teenage daughters — to think about. They were faced with a difficult choice: stay in an increasingly dangerous Afghanistan or leave their home forever.
Up until then, things had been peaceful for the Abdils. “We had a well-arranged life. We had work, a house. Life was pretty comfortable,” Hakeem says. But conditions in Kabul had grown worse when many assumed they’d get better. In February 2020,...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/c/23170906/homeland-unsettled-afghan-refugee-crisis-housing-bay-area
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