When Afghan refugees in India held a protest in Delhi on August 23, sisters Dia and Diyana had been at its vanguard, one wrapped within the Afghan countrywide flag at the same time as the opposite held up a placard, attractive to the United Nations to assist the people of the battle-torn nation.
Dia (10) and Diyana (12), citizens of an Afghan enclave in south Delhi, have to be getting to know and gambling, but at this tender age, the sisters braved it out in a hot weather, expressing their issue approximately the children, in particular women, in Afghanistan considering its takeover by the Taliban.
"We are scared. We understand what the Taliban are, even though we have been no longer born after they first took over our place of origin. And, we recognize how insecure the kids and women are feeling in our place of origin right now," said the elder sister.
Along with their mother and father, the sisters had long past to take part inside the protest held in the front of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the UN Refugee Agency in south Delhi's Vasant Vihar.
The protest which started on Monday, have on account that been relayed, and the refugees are refusing to relent from their role until their needs are met, which incorporates issuing of guide letters from the UN corporation to permit migration to different nations and higher opportunities in India.
On August 23, whilst the protest started out, a huge wide variety of Afghan refugees had accumulated there, drawn from Delhi and neighbouring towns.
Among them have been ratings of children, as younger as a two-yr-old Nihanz who came along with her circle of relatives contributors from Bhogal and took part inside the demonstration using her mother's shoulders.
Women energy was obtrusive on the protest, and participation through young women, brought the point of interest on their plight, their vulnerability to the modern occasions and their sheer hopelessness of living a pitiable refugee existence, whilst Afghanistan descended further down the spiral of uncertainty.
Holding a poster, Zuleikha Khadarkhil, 10, sat quietly subsequent to her eight-year-old brother Mohammed Rameen, who raised vociferous slogans against the Taliban, when most kids of his age are playing with toys and not taking element in a protest that could have global ramifications.
While Zuleikha become silent, the picture at the poster she held screamed approximately the plight of ladies and their bleak future.
There have been no words on the shifting artwork, just a cartoon of a younger female depicted in a conventional Afghani dress, nearly matching what the young protester had worn, with disappointment in her eyes and one arm outstretched, attaining out for a book, signifying the curbs that the Taliban imposes on freedom and education of ladies and girls.
"As refugees we sense insecure, as children we experience insecure, as women we sense insecure, extra so now after what has befell in our Afghanistan. I actually have a horrible feeling approximately the younger ladies and women of Afghanistan. How will they be handled now," she lamented.
Rameen and Zuleikha had come to the protest with their mother and father from Tilak Nagar, in which a small community of Afghans are living.
The protest has been led by means of Afghan Solidarity Committee (ASC), an umbrella business enterprise of Afghan refugees in India. The crowd shouted slogans like 'we need future', 'we want justice', 'no extra silence' and clapped and cheered every other, as many others held banners bearing messages like 'UN Geneva assist Afghan Refugees' and 'Issue resident visas to all Afghan refugees'.
The Taliban swept throughout the us of a this month, seizing manipulate of virtually all key cities and cities within the backdrop of withdrawal of america forces that started out on May 1.
On August 15, the capital metropolis Kabul additionally fell to the Taliban, at the same time as a large quantity of Afghans tried in vain to flee the warfare-torn state.
The rebel forces have now sought to painting themselves as greater slight than when they had imposed a brutal rule inside the overdue Nineteen Nineties. But many Afghans remain sceptical of this and worry the return of the "regressive" regime.
The hopelessness and dejection a number of the children about their future turned into unmistakable, with Tamanna, 10, who had come from Noida, echoing Zuleikha's sentiments.
"With the contemporary situation, the future seems all darkish for us, stuck between a terrible refugee life with nearly no training or task possibilities, and the horror of the Taliban again domestic, she rued.
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