‘The Taliban tried to silence us’: the musicians who escaped to Portugal | The Guardian

In 2021, Portugal was the one country to respond to requests for help from Ahmad Sarmast, the director of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, when the Taliban came to power, according to The Guardian.

“Our school was on the top of the Taliban’s hit list,” he told the newspaper.

Of the 273 musicians affiliated with the institute who came to Western Europe that year, 70 now live in Braga, according to The Guardian.

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