Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, together with the former presidential adviser on National Security, Herbert McMaster called on the American Government and the UN to take orphans from Afghanistan. It is reported by AXIOS.
The newspaper published passages of the letter, which was sent by the first Lady Gill Biden, Vice-President Kamal Harris, US Secretaries and Ministers of Defense, Leaders of the Congress of both parties, executive director of UNICEF and UN Secretary General Anthony Guteros.
Rice and McMaster are asked not to give Afghan orphans in the hands of the Taliban (a terrorist organization prohibited in Russia). They are confident that this is not only a humanitarian question, but also “the most important issue of national security.”
“We know that young boys will be recruited, study and are subjected to ill-treatment from the Taliban, and that young girls are forced to become wives of soldiers. Historically” Taliban “used minors as suicide bombers who used violence against the Afghan people. “,” written the authors of the letter.
In particular, Rice and Macmaster told about the shelter in Afghanistan, in which there are 200 children belonging to the persecuted ethnic and religious groups. “Many families in the USA, Canada and Western Europe want to adopt these children, ready to pay flights and are currently being accelerated,” – noted in a letter.
Former civil servants are concerned that the inaction of the government can lead to the emergence of a “new generation of people committed to warfare against the United States.”
Previously, at least 69 Afghan children were evacuated from the country without parents. The US authorities stated that 34 children came from Afghanistan in the United States without accompaniment. The US Department of Health and Social Services noted that each child would be transferred to the Department of Refugees to provide him with the necessary placement conditions.