The number of Afghans “who have fled violence and remained trapped in their own country, where they live on the brink of survival,” has doubled in just over three years, Amnesty International says.
Today, an overwhelming 1.2 million Afghans are displaced inside their country. This is a rise by roughly 240 percent since 2013, when some 500,000 people were internally displaced in Afghanistan.
This does not even consider the estimated 2.6 million Afghan refugees who live outside of their country’s borders. Afghans make up one of the world’s largest refugee populations. [...]
Now, the Taliban is as strong as it was when the U.S. invaded in 2001. The U.N. reported in September that the extremist group had spread through more of Afghanistan than at any point since the beginning of the U.S. war.
Afghan refugees fleeing this extreme violence and seeking asylum in the West have faced intense discrimination, and even deportation.
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