The American marine shouted “push!”. And hundreds of people did, shoving inside the Boeing C-17 military aircraft; tumbling over, then pulling their bodies into tight huddles on the floor to let as many others in as possible.
As the rear door closed and the deafening engines started, lifting the heavy plane off the runway at Kabul’s international airport, people broke down wailing; crying. Now refugees.
Military aircraft are far noisier inside than passenger planes and almost windowless, so the plane heading for a Qatari military base did not grant its 400 passengers a last view of the Hindu Kush mountain range.
Most on board had lived comfortable lives, weeks filled with work and weekends with family and friends – with visits to suburban gardens or parks, drinking the traditional iced yoghurt beverage “dough” during the hot summers. Their lives were dignified, happy even, despite the war. They had not wanted to leave their homes, but their lives tilted overnight when the Taliban advanced, taking the Afghan capital on 15 August.
Afghans fleeing their country are being evacuated from Kabul airport after the Taliban took over the city.
As the deadline for withdrawal neared the US and UK sent reinforcements to Kabul to evacuate diplomats, soldiers and citizens as well as thousands of Afghans. Photograph: Stefanie Glinski
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US troops left on Tuesday, evacuating their 5,400 troops sent in to help facilitate the mass evacuations that began just days prior to the Taliban’s takeover of the capital and turned into one of history’s biggest airlifts.
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For the Qatar-bound passengers last weekend, the journey had already been unbearably hard – with crowds of thousands to push through at the airport’s gates, where bombs were expected and then detonated – but the most difficult part was still ahead: the process of claiming asylum in a foreign country, of living in a camp, of facing discrimination and rejection, of starting a new life out of the single small suitcase they were allowed to bring. Of being a refugee. Escape was undesired but necessary; leaving their homeland a tough and quick decision to be made.
