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New York Times
01-04-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
Corrections: April 1, 2025
An article on Saturday about a powerful earthquake that struck central Myanmar on Friday inaccurately described the arrest of the leader of an armed group that has sought to protect Rohingya Muslims. The leader was arrested by the authorities in Bangladesh, not by Myanmar's military. An article on Sunday about students at the American University of Afghanistan in Qatar who fear they will be forced to return to their Taliban-ruled homeland after aid and visa cutoffs by the Trump administration misstated one of the countries to which students at the American University of Afghanistan were evacuated. It was Kyrgyzstan, not Kazakhstan. An obituary on Monday about Joe Harris, a sergeant with an all-Black infantry unit during World War II who was believed to be the oldest surviving U.S. paratrooper, misstated the year the U.S. Army was desegregated. It was 1948, not 1947. Errors are corrected during the press run whenever possible, so some errors noted here may not have appeared in all editions.
New York Times
30-03-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
‘They Will Label Us as Spies': The Afghan Students Abandoned by America
When she finds it hard to focus, Nilab jots down her worries on slips of paper and pins them to her wall, a strategy she picked up in a seminar on mental health at the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul. She makes a mental note to deal with the issues at a scheduled time and then gets back to studying. That kept her sane when the U.S.-backed Afghan government was overthrown in 2021, when the Taliban made it illegal for women to receive an education and when she left in July 2023 to study at the university's campus-in-exile in Qatar. Now, in Nilab's dorm room in Doha, the little notes are stacking up. The Trump administration's shutdown of foreign aid and refugee admissions has left her terrified that she will be forced to return to Afghanistan. There, she would be alone and deprived of any rights as a woman. Her hard-earned American-style education would be all but worthless. She imagines the worst. 'How can girls go back to Afghanistan?' said Nilab, 30, who asked that only her first name be used to protect her identity. 'What will happen to us? Rape, forced marriage and death.' On Jan. 20, just as Nilab was planning her final project for her cybersecurity degree, President Trump signed an executive order suspending refugee resettlement. The U.S. government had promised refugee status for her and her classmates, but Nilab's hopes of rejoining her family, who received asylum in the United States after the Taliban took over, were shattered. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. Already a subscriber? Log in. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
