{"id":5792,"date":"2005-12-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/12\/27\/2005-12-27-us-should-act-to-prevent-return-of-hindu-refugees-to-afghanistan-from-germany\/"},"modified":"2005-12-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-27T12:00:00","slug":"2005-12-27-us-should-act-to-prevent-return-of-hindu-refugees-to-afghanistan-from-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/12\/27\/2005-12-27-us-should-act-to-prevent-return-of-hindu-refugees-to-afghanistan-from-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Should Act To Prevent Return of Hindu Refugees To Afghanistan From Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/uscirf.gov\/mediaroom\/press\/2005\/december\/12202005_hinduRefugees.html\">uscirf.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">WASHINGTON, DC, December 26, 2005: The United States Commission on International  Religious  Freedom (USCIRF) wrote to the U.S. Department of State asking that  it  urgently communicate with the German government to prevent the  imminent involuntary deportation of thousands of particularly  vulnerable asylum seekers from Germany to Afghanistan, including  Hindu  refugees who face the threat of violence upon return to  Afghanistan. The imminent deportation of Afghan asylum seekers was announced  earlier this month by authorities within the Federal Republic of  Germany.  The Afghan Hindu population was one of the most severely  persecuted groups under the Taliban, and nearly all members of the  community fled the country.  Because the government in Kabul does  not  exercise full control over the country, and religious freedom and  human rights abuses continue in regions outside of the central  government&#8217;s control, the Commission is concerned that these  individuals will be subject to persecution if forced to return to  Afghanistan.  A Hindu aid worker from India, Maniyappan Raman  Kutty,  was recently brutally beheaded.  &#8220;In the event that the German government moves ahead with  involuntary  deportation, the Commission is urging the U.S. Refugee Program to  prepare for the resettlement of Afghan Hindus and members of other  particularly vulnerable groups in the United States, as was done  with  Bosnian refugees in the late 1990&#8217;s when Germany launched their  involuntary return at a time when other members of the  international  community considered it too unsafe to conduct involuntary  repatriations to Bosnia,&#8221; said USCIRF Chair Michael Cromartie. For the full press release, click &#8220;source&#8221; above.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>uscirf.gov WASHINGTON, DC, December 26, 2005: The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) wrote to the U.S. Department,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}