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Images of throngs trying to flee Kabul are shameful for Western nations, Germany's president said on Tuesday, as desperate people clamoured at the airport after the Taliban takeover.
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By Hans-Edzard Busemann and Christian Kraemer BERLIN (Reuters) -Images of throngs trying to flee Kabul are shameful for Western nations, Germany s president said on Tuesday, as desperate people clamoured at the airport after the Taliban takeover. We are experiencing a human tragedy for which we share responsibility, said President Frank-Walter Steinmeier after the Western-backed government in Kabul collapsed https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/evacuation-flights-resume-kabul-airport-biden-defends-us-withdrawal-2021-08-17 and its foreign-trained security forces melted away. Germany, which had the second largest military contingent in Afghanistan after the United States, wants to airlift thousands of German-Afghan dual nationals as well as rights activists, lawyers and people who worked with foreign forces. The images of despair at Kabul airport shame the political West, Steinmeier, whose post is largely ceremonial, said in a statement at the German presidential palace. All the mo
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