'Where will I go?': Afghan refugees in Germany fear Taliban's diplomatic return
Roqia Saee thought she would be safe when she arrived in Germany with her two children in 2023, having fled her homeland a wanted woman. Born in the central Afghan city of Bamyan in 1995, six years before the Taliban blew up its 1,400-year-old Buddha statues , she grew up hearing about atrocities perpetrated by the insurgents. When the group returned to power five years ago, she was arrested and…
Roqia Saee, an Afghan refugee who fled her homeland in 2023 after being arrested and brutalized by the Taliban, now worries about what might happen if the Islamist group re-establishes diplomatic ties with Germany. Saee, a Hazara minority from Bamyan, witnessed the Taliban's brutal crackdown on her people and her activism during the group's previous rule.
The German government has quietly begun to forge diplomatic relations with the Taliban, appointing two diplomats to its embassies in Berlin and Bonn. This move has triggered concerns in the Afghan diaspora, which fears the Taliban could use their data against them or their families in Afghanistan. Saee herself fled to Germany after escaping the Taliban's wrath, but she now fears that the German government's cooperation with the group could put her life at risk.
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