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JardinVibe · 2021-08-20T13:22:14+00:00

Has anyone seen the video on the BBC website showing the little girl being handed over a wall to US soldiers at Kabul airport? She can only have been under 2 years old. I can't stop thinking about it. I wonder what on earth happened to her. I have a toddler myself and it's so upsetting (obvs upsetting regardless but the idea of feeling your only chance to save your child is to hand your baby over to a soldier is just terrifying). Has anyone seen this or know any more if this story? Sadly I know it's just a tiny moment in a catastrophe full of horror stories.

Cloud1220 · 20/08/2021 15:30

The pictures are truly heartbreaking. I have sobbed for those poor mothers and their innocent children. Whatever you do, don’t read the comments on the Daily Mail articles, the lack of empathy is sickening.

CuriousaboutSamphire · 20/08/2021 15:30

@NinaBallerinaShoes

My suspicion is that it was done for a publicity stunt and the child was reunited with their parents on the other side of the wall. In my view, it was a too fortunate photo opportunity to it to be real.

You need to have a rethink!

Or do you also think the fucking awful pictures of a human being falling from the under carriage of a plane are also "too fortunate a photo oopportunity for it to be real"

It's scary, don't let fear of this blind you to the only too real horrors those peole are experiencing!

HHSchultz · 20/08/2021 15:33

Beaux ,what do you think should happen?

gardeninggirl68 · 20/08/2021 15:33

its only logical to realise soldiers are not equipped to care for a child or baby.....so by accepting a child over the fence to safety they will then need to accept they need someone to bring over to care for it. so that will be the parent i assume

literally a child is a ticket out of there.....just hope its the parent who gets to be with their kid not a random person.

StarttoFinish · 20/08/2021 15:36

If they're handing them back, how do they know they've gone to the right parent?

Heartbreaking, the whole thing and I've no idea what the answer is.

BeauxRingarde · 20/08/2021 15:40

If they're handing them back, how do they know they've gone to the right parent?

Don't you think the crowd will pass them to the right parent? Who else would want extra children when they can't keep their own safe, or even fed?

PicsInRed · 20/08/2021 15:41

literally a child is a ticket out of there.....just hope its the parent who gets to be with their kid not a random person.

What a revolting sentiment.

These people are literally fleeing terror, persecution and slaughter with their children in tow.

Be thankful you've had the fortune of geography and birth to avoid such a fate.

StarttoFinish · 20/08/2021 15:42

@HHSchultz

It's sickening, how can the West let this happen? I can't get my head around it. Why are we not getting the Army back out there. Is the world so desensitised to barbarism?

"We've" been trying to sort this that way for 20years. Although I'm going to guess you use the term "we" losely and it wasn't your husband/son/brother doing the dying.

Although TBF the men and women who were there risking their lives think this is appalling too.

TheFairyCaravan · 20/08/2021 15:42

This is a British soldier who is there atm. He looks incredibly young and probably earns less in a year than Dominic Raab’s holiday cost. You can see the horror he’s experiencing in his eyes.

DS1 is a soldier. We were talking at lunchtime today about this. We said that these poor people are going to be incredibly traumatised having to hand their children and loved ones over, it just doesn’t bare thinking about. The soldiers are going to be too. It’s just horrific. And it’s just sick for someone to suggest that these images are publicity stunts. Honestly, have a word with yourself.

wewereliars · 20/08/2021 15:42

beauxRingarde Which is why I said over a century.

The West's nervous breakdown over Russia and communism led them to fund and train the Mujahadeen, who were meant to counter the Russian threat. Under Russia girls and women had at least a right to an education and a degre of self determination.

The Mujahadeen developed into the Taliban, which robbed women of any rights at all. Ove the last 20 years, the Taliban were declawed, and girls and women have enjoyed freedoms previously unknown.

We have left effectively in the night,and have left anyone who assisted the Western forces, women, girls, anyone not in support of the regime to their fate. It is completely inexcusable.

Any women in public life, such as reporters, judges, politicians are now in hiding.

MySister · 20/08/2021 15:44

Context, so many stories built up of photos without context

Boatonthehorizon · 20/08/2021 15:44

Wasnt the mother screaming in the middle of the photo?
It looked like it was against her will to me. A male control act in a male controlled society.

Mousetown · 20/08/2021 15:45

@NinaBallerinaShoes

My suspicion is that it was done for a publicity stunt and the child was reunited with their parents on the other side of the wall. In my view, it was a too fortunate photo opportunity to it to be real.

Ah yes, it was all just a “publicity stunt”

Are you for fucking real?!

StarttoFinish · 20/08/2021 15:45

@BeauxRingarde

If they're handing them back, how do they know they've gone to the right parent?

Don't you think the crowd will pass them to the right parent? Who else would want extra children when they can't keep their own safe, or even fed?

I don't know that's why ask. Would the parent even still be there? If I'd handed a child over in desperation like that, I don't think I'd hang around for long, my thinking being if I wasn't there, they'd have to keep them. Are they being handed back to a specific person or just put back over the fence?

StarttoFinish · 20/08/2021 15:47

@TheFairyCaravan

This is a British soldier who is there atm. He looks incredibly young and probably earns less in a year than Dominic Raab’s holiday cost. You can see the horror he’s experiencing in his eyes.

DS1 is a soldier. We were talking at lunchtime today about this. We said that these poor people are going to be incredibly traumatised having to hand their children and loved ones over, it just doesn’t bare thinking about. The soldiers are going to be too. It’s just horrific. And it’s just sick for someone to suggest that these images are publicity stunts. Honestly, have a word with yourself.

You want to cry for what that young man's facing, let alone the child.

StarttoFinish · 20/08/2021 15:50

@Boatonthehorizon

Wasnt the mother screaming in the middle of the photo? It looked like it was against her will to me. A male control act in a male controlled society.

I can imagine a situation where a mother in that position would be both in agreement that it was the best/only thing to do for her child and screaming at the pain of it all.

Lu5332 · 20/08/2021 15:59

My brother served in Afghanistan, I don't think anybody wants to send our troops back over there, least of all those of us with military family.

I just feel that the world needs to help these people. Not just the UK or USA, every country possible.

I don't know what the answer is or how that would ever be possible, I just wish that it was

ballsdeep · 20/08/2021 16:00

@NinaBallerinaShoes

My suspicion is that it was done for a publicity stunt and the child was reunited with their parents on the other side of the wall. In my view, it was a too fortunate photo opportunity to it to be real.

SirVixofVixHall · 20/08/2021 16:02

@rooarsome

I've also seen a video of a baby, probably about 1, being passed over the crowd towards the fence. It's utterly heartbreaking

It is heartbreaking. Those poor families.

jasjas1973 · 20/08/2021 16:06

"We've" been trying to sort this that way for 20years. Although I'm going to guess you use the term "we" losely and it wasn't your husband/son/brother doing the dying

The tragedy is that the 'west stopped fighting the Taliban around 2015, the ANA took over, the US providing air cover, logistic, command and training (along with others)

To go back in again, means our troops dying to undo the damage politicians have caused by their untimely and ill conceived withdrawal.

Samcro · 20/08/2021 16:08

BeauxRingarde Fri 20-Aug-21 15:22:19
HHSchultz

It's sickening, how can the West let this happen? I can't get my head around it. Why are we not getting the Army back out there. Is the world so desensitised to barbarism?

Which Army? Do you want a war against the Taliban? And then what...a permanent presence of british troops, for ever? Are you willing to send your husband and sons, or is it someone elses you want to get in front of the guns and bombs?

Your thinking is so simplistic.

So aggree

DingDongThongs · 20/08/2021 16:08

@NinaBallerinaShoes

My suspicion is that it was done for a publicity stunt and the child was reunited with their parents on the other side of the wall. In my view, it was a too fortunate photo opportunity to it to be real.

What planet are you on? It's not a publicity stunt. That's an act of love and sheer desperation.

Lovemusic33 · 20/08/2021 16:09

They have said that no child will travel without its parent/s. Pretty sure the child was handed back as well as any others that were handed over.
The media twist things and make things look worse than they are, though I’m not saying that this isn’t a terrible situation because it is truly awful. We were led to believe that people were throwing babies over barbed wire and that people were abandoning their children (I’m sure they were trying to) when it has been said by the forces that they won’t take a child without it’s parents.

There’s also photos of people travelling on empty planes without the full story being told, planes can only spend a certain time on the ground as others are waiting to land so some have to leave without being full. I’m guessing there are many checks that need doing before people can board (to prove they are eligible to leave).

Such a awful situation for everyone involved but the troops are doing their best to get people out as safely as possible.

DingDongThongs · 20/08/2021 16:09

@HasaDigaEebowai

They put out a statement saying the parent also went with the child

Please could you post the link x

DingDongThongs · 20/08/2021 16:11

@vivariumvivariumsvivaria

fucking hell

I really hope I never know what that feels like.

Those poor sods. Millions of them.

We don't realise how lucky we truly are.

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