Afghan doctor's family endures Taliban beatings to reach US: 'I want to contribute something to this country'
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Dr. Wais Aria, an Afghan human rights activist whose work centers on treating women and children who have survived trauma from terrorism, war and domestic violence, barely made it out of Kabul with his own family after Taliban fighters assaulted him multiple times outside the airport.
"People treat me as a refugee…burdening the shoulder of government," the soft-spoken but animated medical doctor told Fox News Friday. "But as a human being, I want to contribute something with this country, with this nation – that is the first goal for me." Aria and his wife are Afghan nationals with green cards who have lived in Virginia since 2017. The youngest of their four children is an American citizen, and they went back to Afghanistan earlier this summer to visit relatives and so Aria could do work for his NGO.
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