The Straggler Defenders Was Published
A True Story of Dispersion of Afghan National Army Soldiers
“The Straggler Defenders” is a short-true story based on field interviews of the migration and dispersion of Afghan National Army soldiers on the borders of Iran, penned by Iranian journalist Zahra Mushtaq.
This work was authored by Zahra Mushtaq amid the fall of the regime of the Republic of Afghanistan, based on the eyes and field interviews with the displaced soldiers and officers of the Afghan National Army on the Iranian border. The main focus of this content is related to the escape and displacement of Afghan National Army soldiers into Iran.
Thus, one part of the content also deals with the issue of Afghan immigration and the problems that Afghans face. So, The Straggler Defenders, translated by Asadullah Jafari “Pezhman” on March 18, 2024, was published in 34 pages by Ukiyoto Publishing and is now available in bookstores worldwide.
A Part of the Text from The Straggler Defenders as Follows:
They have visited all the long border walls, crying and screaming a hundred times. The child’s parents thought that their child might have been thrown to this side of the border wall from somewhere else. But it didn’t happen like that either. However, out of sympathy, the border forces have visited and searched all the lines of the wall step by step with this family. Eventually, this family found their nine-year-old son on the other side of the border wall with the help of border forces police. Human traffickers had sexually assaulted the oppressed child, whose whole body was covered in blood due to consecutive and repeated assaults. The nine-year-old boy looked dead in torn to pieces clothes with his guts spilled out. But at that time, someone noticed the child’s weak pulse, and they took him to the hospital very soon.
Many children, girls, and young women are raped and assaulted sexually by thieves and human traffickers on the way to reach the border lines between Iran and Afghanistan due to illegal immigration. But they do keep silent, perhaps except for silence, because they have no other choice. Maybe the victims think this is the last humiliation they must endure on this painful and tragic path. Perhaps they think passing through the border walls is entering the gates of happiness. Therefore, this is a part of the story of the suffering of Afghan refugees that I want to share with people of the world. What does anyone know more than this?!
