Burma News Wrap 9-14-2021

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/30/politics/afghan-siv-arrival/index.html

 

Burmese PDF/NLD in similar situation, but no one's talking abt evacuating them.

 

Shame.

 

 

7-30-2021

 

But even leaving Afghanistan does not necessarily mean a family is free from the threat of Taliban reprisal, Shinwari told CNN as he waited at Dulles International Airport to welcome another SIV family to America. "No One Left Behind" helped relocate the family to the US with the help of a grant it used to pay for their airfare.

"For most of SIVs who are here, because they still have their immediate family back in Afghanistan, their brothers, sisters, their parents and their other relatives, if the Taliban or the al Qaeda finds out that one member of the family was involved in assisting US military in Afghanistan, they're going to kill the entire family," Shinwari said. "If they can't catch the exact person, if they find out that person is here in the United States, they will go after their family. They will kill anybody in the family for the revenge.

CNN's Michael Conte contributed to this report