Ibrahim Rasool ended up in Bosnia on his escape from Afghanistan. And has a lot to tell.
The situation of refugees on the Balkan route has reached a new low point: around 100 families, including children, live in a tent settlement in the middle of a field in the Bosnian border town of Velika Kladuša, 224 kilometers from Austria – without electricity, water and heating the supply of small NGOs like SOS Balkanroute.
Not even 100 meters further away is another tent settlement with the same number of residents, only a corn field separates the two wild camps. According to yesterday's on-site count by Austrian refugee workers, there were 531 people, including numerous newborns.
In the middle, the SOS Balkanroute activists met a FIFA-licensed referee. Ibrahim Rasool showed the refugee workers from Austria his diploma and FIFA licenses from the Afghan Football Association.
He has whistled numerous official futsal matches in his home country. At the moment, however, he has completely different worries than football: As he reveals in an upcoming video interview with SOS Balkanroute, his father was kidnapped by the Taliban in his homeland. In an interview he also talks about the violence he experienced on the part of the police at the EU's external border: “The Croatian border police repeatedly beat us back to Bosnia with brutality.”
“My mother doesn't know where my father is. It is difficult for you to understand, it cannot be understood. They are the Taliban, they are everything but people, ”said Ibrahim Rool, who fled Kabul with his brother.
