After an 18-day walk, three Afghans who once worked with the ADF in their home country, have reached Canberra, ending their journey with a peaceful protest in front of Parliament House. Via SBSPashto
Ahsanullah Sherzad, Mohammad Nazir Mangal and Qutbiallam Timor protest outside Parliament House after an 18-day walk.Three Afghan men who worked with the ADF have completed a 700km protest walk to Canberra.They claim the government is not doing enough to repatriate the families of those who helped the ADF in Afghanistan.
“The Afghan LEE Alliance organised this long walk of nearly 700km as a civil movement to deliver and share the concerns of Afghan LEEs with the Australian government and parliamentarians,” he said. “Along the way we have suffered from blisters, cold nights, rainy and windy weather, feet and bone pains, nights in the forests wildlife, deficiencies of food and water until to got to a shop and the lack of phone and internet reception,” he said.
“Prioritise Afghan LEEs’ extended families’ visa applications for humanitarian visas and allocate 5000 humanitarian visa places for Afghan LEE’s extended families; stop refusing in-country visa applications for Afghans; and reconsider processing the recently refused humanitarian visa applications,” he said.
Abdul* is a former Afghan LEE who travelled from Melbourne to Canberra to participate in the peaceful protest. He worked alongside Australian forces as an interpreter and cultural adviser in Uruzgan and Kandahar between 2010 and 2013.
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