The Afghan Refugee Crisis
The Briefing Room
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What's Your Understanding of Afghan Refugees?
I think that in the coming weeks, the pattern of exodus will become clearer because we had this short-term focus on the airlift. As that airlift has now so closed down and we're getting into the next phase, I think we'll see people who have worked with the collapsed Afghan government trying to get out. Potentially, you have 300,000 former members of the security forces. But there are also people who have been civilians and simply reckon that they cannot cope under this new regime as their livelihoods of collapsed.
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