'Please let us on the bus': Heartbreak on Kabul airport convoy

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Afghans aboard a convoy of buses that was given a Taliban escort to Kabul's airport spoke of the heartbreak of driving past huge crowds desperate to join them.AfghanistanCrisis Taliban

Taliban silent on rights of minorities, we had high hopes from peace process, says Afghan MP Anarkali Kaur Honaryar"They were showing us their passports or other documents... One man came to my window with wife and child and waved his passport saying 'I have a British visa, but can't get in. Please let us on the bus'."

There have been reports of the Taliban stopping, harassing and even detaining Afghans trying to flee, but the reporter said his convoy passed largely without incident.The United States - and other nations - had plans to offer sanctuary this year to tens of thousands of Afghans following Washington's decision to withdraw all its troops from the country.

Those offered the chance of a new life abroad mostly included Afghans who had worked for foreign forces during the 20-year occupation that followed the ousting of the Taliban in the wake of the September 11 attacks. But those plans were thrown into disarray by the Taliban's devastating rout of Afghan forces, and their return to power last weekend."Some were journalists, others women university students... then there were those who worked with foreigners.""The day the Taliban came, I knew life was over for me in Afghanistan." she said.Those on the convoy were now waiting for their turn to be evacuated to the West -- via a coronavirus isolation camp in Qatar.

"My children are crying because they are exhausted, but I am telling them hang on a bit more for the flight to come and then we are saved," said Haji Hamid, with his wife and four youngsters in tow."I keep telling them 'one day, you'll thank me'."

 

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