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Law-abiding Afghans living in Denmark are struggling to accept that a new Danish government wants to work with the Taliban on forced deportations. The cooperation is laid out in a deportation reform that will soon be adopted.

»Denmark’s cooperation with the Taliban is a betrayal«

Girls and women sit outside a bakery in Kabul, waiting for a chance to buy bread. Under a new law, there are no provisions that prohibit physical, psychological, or sexual violence against women. Foto: Ali Khara/Ritzau Scanpix
Girls and women sit outside a bakery in Kabul, waiting for a chance to buy bread. Under a new law, there are no provisions that prohibit physical, psychological, or sexual violence against women. Foto: Ali Khara/Ritzau Scanpix
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»The Taliban is a regime that has killed our soldiers and that clearly shows it stands against everything Denmark has fought for in Afghanistan«.

Yasser Ghanbari, chairman of the Hazara-Danish Association, which represents Afghanistan’s persecuted Hazara minority, is deeply outraged that the Social Democrats-Socialist People’s Party-Moderates-Radical Liberals government wants to begin cooperating with the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in order to deport more Afghans from Denmark by force.

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