Miseries of the Afghan Refugees risking their lives to reach Europe Continue

As Europe confronts a rapidly escalating migration crisis driven by war, a large number of Afghan youths and residents are still suffering difficult problems to reach European countries.

Some of those Afghan youths who reached to European countries say that the struggles they faced led to an unexpected conclusion: “The difficulties in Afghanistan were better than the difficulties they face today in Europe.”

The reality is that there is no quick solution or even a solution at all. But there is a way of at least managing the problem in a more orderly fashion in the long term – if the government recognizes that asylum seeking is a symptom of a much bigger issue.

A number of them also claimed that the insecurity in Afghanistan caused they seeks asylum to European countries; 2015 was the deadliest year for Afghan civilians.

As one of thousands of young people trying to escape worsening insecurity, a lack of socio-economic opportunities and increased anxiety over Afghanistan’s future, Izmaray resident of Kabul left his home and embarked on a three-year journey to London.

With having $ 8,000 in hands, Izmaray entered along the way to Iran, Turkey, Greece, Italy, France and finally the great Britian.

At thousands of official applications, 2015 saw the highest rate of Afghans seeking asylum in the decade since the war began.

Izmaray’s first steps towards Europe, along one of the world’s oldest borders, between Iran and Turkey, were chased by a spectre of death.

Despite such fears, for asylum seekers trying to enter Europe, making it out of Turkey is imperative.

“Neither the European nations nor Afghanistan are dealing with issues of safety or legal obligations towards these migrants,” says Heather Barr, Afghanistan researcher at Human Rights Watch.

For asylum seekers such as Izmaray or Atiq, who “always faced fighting between ethnicities” in the eastern province of Ghazni, safety and legality come to a head in the form of a set of fingerprints.

The issue of refugees is an international problem and needs proper attention from international community.

The refugees who leave their homelands in search of better life, most of the times suffer different sorts of hardships before they reach somewhere safe.

Most of them even do not reach to the destination they set for and end up in detention center, refugee camps and even death.

On most of the occasions they fall prey to the ill intentions of human-smugglers, who discriminate them as much as they can.

Furthermore, they have to go through severe kind of psychological depression and strain as they go through the worst sort of experiences.

The migrants and asylum seekers are mostly from the third world countries that suffer from wars, conflicts and political and economic crisis.

Finding no guarantee of secure life, they move towards the developed countries of the world in search of contentment and bliss but unfortunately, there are many who do not earn the fortunate end.

Though there has been remarkable decrease in this regard, million of Afghan refugees are still living their lives in neighboring countries (like Pakistan and Iran), European countries, Australia and America; while, there are thousand others who are still in different sorts of camps and detention centers around the world waiting for some sort of sympathy and attention.

The circumstances faced by these refugees are not always welcoming and they have to bear the brunt of different sorts of reactions.

Though in some countries they are welcomed warmly, in others they are treated in a very cruel manner. Moreover they have to go through very risky journey so as to reach their destinations.

So far many people have capsized in the sea while moving from Indonesia to Australia, carrying the unfortunate victims of both social hardships and wrath of nature – the ill-fated migrants.

Afghanistan has been one of the dominant countries that have produced large number of refugees. The political and security situation in Afghanistan has always forced so many Afghans to leave their land and move to other countries to find refuge.

There are many Afghans living in the neighboring countries because of the civil wars and severe social and economic conditions in the last 20 years or so.