Kazitiskis, Lithuania: Such as Taliban fighters confiscated a series of provincial cities in Afghanistan, thousands of kilometers away at the Emergency Refugee camp in East Lithuania, the former Afghan army Fazel Rahman looked back at the war he left behind two months ago.
He said he had been warned by Taliban sympathizers in his home village that his life would be in danger unless he joined them, but he did not see it as an option so he decided to follow the path owned by tens of thousands of other Afghans had been taken and headed to Europe.
“The situation in our country worsened.
The Taliban killed my cousin,” said Fazel Rahman, who served for 15 years in the Afghan Army.
“I fled with my children because they threatened me, warned me to leave my job.” Now waiting in a former school building in Kazitiskis Village in the Ignalina region in Lithuania, he has found himself in the midst of a deadlock between Belarus and the European Union.
The European Union accused the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko using a refugee crisis to suppress the block to reverse the sanctions placed in the country on the presidential election which was debated last August and his treatment of political opposition.
With the capital of Afghanistan Kabul is now almost surrounded by the Taliban after the Lightning campaign that follows the withdrawal of most US troops last month, politicians in Europe are increasingly worried that more irregular migrants like Rahman’s fazel might come.
The Frontex The European Union border body has recorded an increase in people who came from Afghanistan and Syria through West Balkans.
Wandering around 130 others at the metal cage outside the former school building, Fazel Rahman waited, chatting with other people when the laundry dried on the fence and children playing in dust and mud.
This camp is equipped with a folding bed and shower, and provides a temporary paradise from a hard trip, where he said he was severely beaten by border guards.
“Even in war, the army did not treat people like I was treated,” he said.