KABUL/BERLIN/BAMAKO (Own report) – Berlin is legitimizing German military intervention by alleging it is to combat the causes of fleeing. The Bundeswehr must undertake operations in Mali, “so that people will no longer have to flee the violence and hopelessness,” claimed Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen, early this week during her visit in Mali’s capital Bamako. She is using the current refugee crisis in Germany to arouse sympathy for the Bundeswehr’s interventions. However, with its aggressive foreign policy, Germany is actively helping create the causes for people to flee. A prime example is the Federal Republic of Germany’s Afghan policy since the 1980s. Together with other western governments, Bonn had exacerbated the Afghan civil war with its support for the Mujahidin. Millions of Afghans had to flee the country and Afghanistan has never recovered from its political, economic, and social devastation. The Bundeswehr’s deployment in Afghanistan, which began in 2001 and whose main mission was ended last year, has provoked a new wave of refugees.
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