‘They will label us as spy’: Afghan students were abandoned by America

When it was difficult to focus, Nilab Jots worried about the paper sips and put a strategy he chose in the walls on the wall, in a seminar on mental health at the University of Afghanistan in Kabul.

It is a mental note to deal with problems in scheduled times and then returns to study. It’s been mind in this time The US-supported Afghan government has been overthrown in 2021When the Taliban is illegal for women to study at the university in Qatar, in July 2023.

Now the Nilab’s bedroom in Doha, small notes are collected. The closure of the Trump Administration’s foreign assistance and refugee receptions was horrified for being to return to Afghanistan.

There he was alone and would be deprived of the rights like a woman. Everything in American style education he won him hard, but worthless.

Imagine the worst. “How can girls return to Afghanistan?” Said, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30. What will happen to us? Rape, forced marriage and death. “

On January 20, the Presidential Trump has signed the final project for Nilab’s cyber security level Suspension of refugees. The US government has promised refugee status for him and his classmates, but the Taliban, the hope of rejoice in Nilab’s family, took refuge after the Taliban.

A month later, the University lost Mr. Trump’s most funding tear down American foreign aid programs to reconstruct management in accordance with foreign policy goals. On March 16, financing was partially restored, the university management, but will operate in June. If the university is closed, students will lose the housing, canteen food plans and Qatar student visas.

The third lightning came on March 15, Mr. Trump came in the words that Afghanistan thought to put on a list Countries to be banned from entering the United States. Nilab does not know that he could not see his family once again, he takes less space.

Afghan students and other Afghan students threw themselves in chaos, and a university education was caught between promised endless opportunities and noted that there are no uncovered doors.

“I thought this long journey was over,” he said. “I was wrong.”

There is little time for Nilab’s concerns with intervals approaching the cheek of Nilab. There is a presentation on serials and algorithms soon.

Thus, he writes his fears and pins the bulletin board.

Piece of American

The American University of Afghanistan was established in 2006 as Coed Liberal Art College in English. Ambulance leaders and innovators who imitate the Western ideals of justice, freedom and democracy are designed to educate the next generation of innovators. Students called the campuses “Little America”.

The US government has invested more than $ 100 million in university, and from the United States to the United States of Azerbaijan, or USAID funding from USAID.

(Agency also got acquainted with more than 100 Afghan women, including Nilab’s sister Oman and the University of American University and these students in the American University.)

When the American military returns to the government of August 2021 and the Taliban, the American University became an open target. Students began with militants, craftsmen, creepy graffiti, “The students were” the United States Training Cafe “and” Worms in Sheep “.

Managers tried to get more than 1,000 students from the country as soon as possible. About 700 evacuated to the universities in Iraq, Kazakhstan and the United States were evacuated.

Qatar government agreed host a temporary campus-in-exile. One hundred students came to the process starting in August 2022, and the other 100 people landed later.

Most of the students ended 1 visa in the United States. When Mr Trump began in January, the remaining 35 were waiting for their last interviews and increasingly medical examinations. Some had already plane tickets.

Now, unknowing what to happen, he amazed the nearest loaves of temporary campuses.

“We thought that all of our trauma finally came to the end, so we can start breathing again,” he said.

“I have accepted that I could not stay in Afghanistan,” he said, “But now I will now think I think.”

The desires came out during the campus. Abbas Ahmadzai, 24, a business Majoru, did a job in operating work in New York. 23-year-old Faisel Popalzai hoped to find a job in Microsoft. The potential false financial transaction has developed an EU-auxiliary computer program. The application called Hawks.ai won Microsoft Hackathon in Doha last year.

He said that he did not mean to close the US doors.

“Trump complains that when Americans left Afghanistan, they left the remaining military equipment,” said Mr. Popalzai. “Well, he is preparing to invest another valuable investment: Our mind is paid by the American people.”

Scare

If the university is forced to close in June, students face an exciting prospect.

They will lose the rights of student visas and for several weeks to remain in Qatar. If they can’t sponsor them or find a business or scholarship offer in another country, they will have to return to Afghanistan.

They said, “The road we study is a contradiction to everything he represents Taliban,” he said. “It was taught to be free to speak, to be independent. On the Taliban government, the only man wants it.”

The university’s managers say graduates have no documented oppression since the Taliban seized. However, students are afraid they will be considered as threatening.

“If we go back, Mr. Popalzai said:” We will send us to the American ideology to infect Afghans against the Taliban. “

The risks for women students are obvious. There are the Taliban prohibited education After the sixth grade, women and women forbid women and most work forms. They can’t walk without a male relative, they are required to cover their faces outside the house and their voices should not be heard in public.

“We will not be killed if we will be killed.”

“Do we have to accept that our rights are violated?” He added. “We have the right to study, contribute, to work, work. In the United States, people have promised us a visa, then changed their ideas?”

Nilab remains in Limbi in the US visa process. Tuesday, US Appeal Court Panel controller Trump management should accept that thousands of people have given refugee status before January 20, which can enter a student of the university. However, the judge can be initially and reverse.

For a loop, the thing that Nilab really throws is the potential to include Afghans in the ban.

He did not see his parents and young sisters because they moved to the North Virginia. As their parents worked in the US government in Afghanistan, they were given asylum. However, because it is adult, they were not eligible to join them.

Nilb is trying to hope, to trust the struggle skills he chooses as a freshman four years ago. Even when studying for exams, it is applied for a scholarship in Europe.

“The Qur’an says a door is opened when a door is closed,” he said. “But if you are beaten, doors will not be opened.”