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Afghanistan
Kabul protests to Iran over 10 migrants shot dead
2013-05-13
[Al Ahram] Afghanistan on Sunday summoned the Iranian ambassador to protest against Iranian guards allegedly shooting dead 10 Afghan illegal migrants as they tried to cross the border.

The migrants were killed overnight on Friday as a group of about 200 people attempted to enter Iran from Lash Wa Juwayn district in the far western province of Farah, according to Afghan officials.

The Afghan government summoned the ambassador "to strongly protest against the killing and injuring of some unarmed Afghans who had entered Iranian soil for work", a statement from the foreign ministry in Kabul said.

"Firing at Afghan civilians who wanted to go to Iran for work is against religious, cultural and good neighbourly relations," it added.
But crashing the border is unneighbourly as well, and occasionally leads to war. Be grateful there are only ten bodies this time.
Thousands of Afghans cross illegally into Iran every year to seek employment as Afghanistan's economy struggles to develop amid the Islamist insurgency that started after the 2001 fall of the Taliban.
...at a time when Iran's young people are turning to drugs and prostitution to blunt the effects of their own unemployment. The wonder is that any Afghans are allowed in at all.
Sediq Sediqqi, front man for the Afghan interior ministry, told AFP that 10 migrants were killed and 12 others were maimed in the shooting.

An Iranian embassy front man in Kabul was not immediately available to comment.
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