Minimal effort made to find missing interpreters

The military’s efforts to find information about 37 Afghan interpreters whose lives may be in danger after helping the Danish forces amounted to a grand total of three emails and one telephone call, according to documents obtained through a freedom of information request. The military's correspondence with Mission Essential Personnel, the Ohio-based firm that recruited the interpreters for the military, appears to be at odds with statements by the former defence minister, Nick Hækkerup (Socialdemokraterne), that the Defence Ministry “had not sat on its hands” after opening up the possibility of granting the interpreters asylum earlier this year. – Information

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