As Afghan people struggle to find safety and resources amid U.S. withdrawal, their families abroad are forced to simply wait and hope the limbo doesn’t last long. “I’m feeling very helpless,” one Afghan American says.
The Afghan community living in Los Angeles and supporters attend a candlelight vigil to demonstrate against the Taliban regaining power in Afghanistan on Tuesday.As Afghan people struggle to find safety and resources amid the U.S. withdrawal from the region and the Taliban capture of the capital, their families abroad are forced to simply wait and hope the limbo doesn’t last long.
Azizi’s immediate family, now based in North Carolina, left Afghanistan in the 1980s during the Soviet invasion of the country. Her mother, the second-youngest of nine children, left when she was 15 for Germany and never saw her home again. It was the last time she ever saw her father, too. Azizi’s father also fled through Germany during Soviet attacks, and her parents met when they both eventually came to the U.S.
“It's sort of a rerun of a very scary, disruptive and life-changing moment for a lot of people,” he said. “It's just more — how will their lives change? And with that change, does it mean they need to seek refuge?” he said. “The U.S. and NATO have been a destabilizing force for two decades of their lives,” he said. “That force is now gone, so they’re trying to understand whether or not the Taliban will now replace them.”
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