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  • Afghan Translators Who Fought With Us Have Been Let Down [not new or limited to the US or just one president" see comment]

    08/19/2021 5:47:54 AM PDT · by daniel1212 · 11 replies
    Faith Matters ^ | September 15, 2020 | Faith Matters
    3,000 Afghan Civilian Translators Left behind Lucy Fisher, the Defence Correspondent of the Times, recently highlighted the ‘hollow promises’ made by the U.K. Government to Afghan translators. In her July 2020 article she stated that British forces employed some 7,000 Afghan civilians of which around 3,500 were translators on active duty at the front-line with British forces. She also listed the fact that 20 Afghan translators were killed on active duty and that 445 have been relocated into the U.K with their families, meaning that some 3,000 are still at risk of harm from an emboldened Taliban, now negotiating peace...