The update comes after Omar Haidari first shared thevideoon Thursday, which has since amassed more than 2.7 million views. “The chaos & fear of people is a testament to the international community’s role in AFG’s downfall & their subsequent abandonment of Afghan people,” Haidari wrote. “The future for AFG has [been] decided for its people without its people’s vote & now they live at the mercy of a terrorist group.”
Officials have since warned against passing children over the fence, which is topped with barbed wire. British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace told Sky News that the U.K. government “cannot just take a minor on their own.”
“You will find as you see in the footage I think you’re showing now, the child was taken — that will be because the family will be taken as well,” Wallace added, referring to other videos that have surfaced.
The scene unfolded amid turmoil for many Afghans after the Taliban seized control of Kabul and other cities this month, following the plannedwithdrawal of U.S. military troops from the country.
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Afghans subsequently descended into panic, crowding the airport in Kabul and scaling concrete walls around the tarmac in an attempt toboard international flights and flee the Taliban’s control. In some instances, more than 600 people haveevacuated in a single tripon Air Force cargo planes, more than the amount of passengers those types of aircrafts typically hold. Many have rushed half-open ramps and even wheel wells to escape, and somehave fallen to their death in the process.
An Afghan man living in Kabul (who asked to be kept anonymous for fear of reprisal) told PEOPLE of the sense of terror that has taken over the city, threatening his family’s livelihood. “We are afraid to go outside now. Everyone is scared and hiding. Unless you are with the Taliban, itis not safe inside Afghanistan,” the man said.
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“I myself, and people in my family, we worked with the Afghan government. We were government workers. Now we are unemployed. I have no income. I have to live off of what money I already have,” he continued. “Our family wants to go to America. We thought we had more time.”
source: people.com
