At least 68 Afghans set up camp to take shelter at Guarulhos International Airport in São Paulo. According to the municipality’s statement, the Municipal Development and Social Assistance Department, which provides food, water, hygiene kits and blankets for people sleeping at the airport, is helping families.
Also, due to the “high demand of refugees arriving in Brazil”, the municipality opened a temporary residence for migrants and refugees on August 10, according to the city hall.
According to information received from the Federal Police, 407 Afghans arrived in Brazil via Guarulhos Airport in July; 292 in August; and until yesterday, September 14, 459. In September of last year, 12 Afghan entered from Congonhas, and in October 57.
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Today (15), it has been one year since the United States (USA) withdrew its troops from Afghanistan after 20 years of occupation. At that time, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani left the country and the Taliban took control of the presidential palace.
The Taliban became known as a fundamentalist religious group in the first half of the 1990s and were organized during the Cold War by insurgents with support from the United States and Pakistan to fight the Soviet presence in Afghanistan, which lasted from 1979 to 1989. .
The rise to power was consolidated with the capture of the capital, Kabul, in 1996.
After taking control of the government, the Taliban executed dissidents and enforced interpretations of Sharia, which is Islamic law. A violent judicial system was established: people accused of adultery could be sentenced to death, and suspected of stealing could face corporal punishment and even mutilation. Beards became compulsory for men and women could not appear unaccompanied in the presence of their husbands. In addition, they had to wear a burqa that covered the whole body. Television, music and cinema were banned and girls were not allowed to go to school.
The US invasion was a response to the attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center, the skyscrapers located in New York. On September 11, 2001, two planes crashed into buildings, knocking them down and killing nearly 3,000 people. The US accused the Taliban of harboring the terrorist organization Al Qaeda, which claimed responsibility for the attack.
In October 2001, military operations in Afghanistan began.
But radicals managed to regain control of the country by forming a new fundamentalist government last year.
source: Noticias