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This Is Why

Afghanistan: The forgotten LGBT+ community

This Is Why

Sky News

News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.0552 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

After the UK government’s promise to support vulnerable LGBT+ people in Afghanistan following the country’s fall to the Taliban in August 2021, those left behind say they’re struggling to get enough help.

On the Sky News Daily with Niall Patterson, Nemat Sadat, the executive director of LGBT+ charity Roshaniya, asks for a clearer plan from ministers, and LGBT+ Afghans share their experiences of discrimination and violence, saying there’s “no future left for LGBT+ people in Afghanistan”.

Warning: This podcast contains descriptions of violence and sexual violence, and mentions of self-harm and suicide.

Producers: Soila Apparicio and Anne-Marie Bullock
Promotions Producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Philly Beaumont

Transcript

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1:06.1

This podcast contains descriptions of violence and sexual violence and mentions of self-harm and suicide.

1:22.6

Yeah. of self-harm and suicide. When the British pulled out of Afghanistan back in 2021, they made a promise. A promise to take in those who'd helped to UK forces during the war, of course,

1:27.9

but also those most vulnerable to persecution

1:30.9

as the Taliban took control of the country.

1:35.4

People like Yusuf and Shurbanu,

1:38.2

British citizens living in Afghanistan with their daughter,

1:41.3

but also Afzal, who had worked with the military

1:43.7

and lived in Kabul all his

1:45.5

life. Others were judges, translators, human rights campaigners. Even my daughter, she was

1:51.1

carrying from the firing, and she said, I don't want to go and I want to stay back in Kabul,

1:56.7

because they will kill us. Now, they were relocated to the UK in somewhat chaotic conditions.

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