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Little girl handed over to US soldiers

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JardinVibe · 20/08/2021 14:22

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.

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TSSDNCOP · 20/08/2021 21:38

@Xoxoxoxoxoxox oh Jesus that's just heartbreaking. Where the hell are the UN? I'm seeing NATO mentioned but this is bigger than that surely?

Wheretoeattweenandteen · 20/08/2021 21:40

Indeed where is the un

Every thing outside Afghanistan feels so slow moving whilst inside they are moving at lightning speed.

The un should have got peace keeping forces out there to help people get to the airports.

I'm wondering how food gets there, sanitisation...

Doodlebug71 · 20/08/2021 21:45

@Xoxoxoxoxoxox

Feeling inclreasingly worried about my friends sister, she has four children, they are near the airport if anyone has any info about help they can access, they were evicted by the Taliban, sleeping rough. Photo's yesterday.We thought we'd show the photo as it is what's happening there.
Not much I can think of, but if you/ they can find Clarissa ward: (fairly distinctive)... she's broadcasting live. Find her. Ask her for help. I'm trying to work out whether it's safe to message her the photo you've posted.

twitter.com/clarissaward?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Akire · 20/08/2021 21:51

I dare say you sleep and go to toilet where you stand in the crush you can’t leave the line. Even once past outer checkpoint still thousands in line before you. Presume once inside airport there are better facilities.

AlmostSummer21 · 20/08/2021 21:52

@NinaBallerinaShoes

Gosh! Why was my comment deleted? I was expressing a point of view. Beware of fake news. I didn’t call anyone a cunt unlike some.
Faux 'what did I done' doesn't wash, it was a vile comment
notimagain · 20/08/2021 21:59

@Wheretoeattweenandteen

The un should have got peace keeping forces out there to help people get to the airports.

  1. First you need a UN resolution which takes time and is prone to get bogged down/veto’d by interested parties (did I hear China mentioned).
  1. If use of force is needed then you’d probably end up with the major participants being the ones already on the ground.

I'm wondering how food gets there, sanitisation...

To those actually on the airport? It will be flown in on the aircraft that once unloaded would hopefully be used to get people out… food for the men, woman and children on the street? I hate to think……not sure if food is getting off airport and past the Taliban.

Sanitation - depends on state of local utilities, it might literally be bottles of water and holes in the ground both on and off the airport.

Babynames2 · 20/08/2021 21:59

I once taught a child who had fled from the Taliban. He arrived as an unaccompanied minor with no English and at first no one knew why or how he got here. He had a scar on the side of his head. It turned out that his family had been shot in front of him by the Taliban who then turned the gun on him and dug it into his head, leaving the scar. They threatened him but left him alive so that he would tell others that the Taliban were responsible, as a warning. An extended family member paid for him to be taken to the UK for safety.

He did really well here, learnt to speak English quickly and got really good GCSEs. But the trauma he went through is just unimaginable to most of us. I hope they do take as many children as possible, girls obviously but boys as well. The Taliban don’t give a shit about harming them either.

I cannot believe western governments have allowed this to happen.

SwimmingUnderwater · 20/08/2021 22:18

@Babynames2

I once taught a child who had fled from the Taliban. He arrived as an unaccompanied minor with no English and at first no one knew why or how he got here. He had a scar on the side of his head. It turned out that his family had been shot in front of him by the Taliban who then turned the gun on him and dug it into his head, leaving the scar. They threatened him but left him alive so that he would tell others that the Taliban were responsible, as a warning. An extended family member paid for him to be taken to the UK for safety.

He did really well here, learnt to speak English quickly and got really good GCSEs. But the trauma he went through is just unimaginable to most of us. I hope they do take as many children as possible, girls obviously but boys as well. The Taliban don’t give a shit about harming them either.

I cannot believe western governments have allowed this to happen.

That's a very sobering story.
Xoxoxoxoxoxox · 20/08/2021 22:24

Doodlebug1

Thanks I haven't heard of her before.

Wheretoeattweenandteen · 20/08/2021 22:27

It's staggering how Impotent all the supposed Western players look.

Un, nato etc all absolutely useless.

We are begging and working with drug cartel terrorists.. What a loop around to Sept 11th, on our knees begging them to work with us.

Wheretoeattweenandteen · 20/08/2021 22:29

Aside from the the obvious sanitation issues I'm just thinking of covid, being issued through body waste.

It's a covid disaster too.

Kendodd · 20/08/2021 22:34

Where did the Taliban come from?
There must be substantial numbers. Why? What drives them to such brutality.

notimagain · 20/08/2021 22:42

@Wheretoeattweenandteen

Aside from the the obvious sanitation issues I'm just thinking of covid, being issued through body waste.

It's a covid disaster too.

TBH I suspect for those stuck outside that airport Covid is probably number 1001 on the list of 1000 things they are worrying about or scared stiff about right now.
Wheretoeattweenandteen · 20/08/2021 23:10

I didn't say that anyone would be worried about it but the fact is that crush is a breeding ground for it.

SupermanWithTheGreyHair · 20/08/2021 23:32

Feeling inclreasingly worried about my friends sister, she has four children, they are near the airport if anyone has any info about help they can access, they were evicted by the Taliban, sleeping rough. Photo's yesterday.We thought we'd show the photo as it is what's happening there.

This is awful to read. I would try contacting some charities here, they may be offer you advice that you could pass on to this poor woman. It’s a truly desperate situation, just heartbreaking, she must be terrified. Some people on here should be ashamed of their comments, no empathy at all.

Comedycook · 20/08/2021 23:38

I can hardly bear to watch the news anymore. It's literally like a disaster film...but it's real. Just horrific

BestZebbie · 20/08/2021 23:53

Were they handing all the children straight back?
I thought I read that they just weren't transporting unaccompanied children so they'd take a parent/family too - if so, there is a huge incentive to throw a child over the wire if it also buys an adult a way out.

Wheretoeattweenandteen · 20/08/2021 23:57

I read they were giving them water not sure.

Or simply to get them out the crush?

BastardMonkfish · 21/08/2021 00:03

@BestZebbie

Were they handing all the children straight back? I thought I read that they just weren't transporting unaccompanied children so they'd take a parent/family too - if so, there is a huge incentive to throw a child over the wire if it also buys an adult a way out.
So fucking what?? Wouldn't you do anything in your power to get yourself and your child out of that situation?
notimagain · 21/08/2021 00:06

@Wheretoeattweenandteen

I didn't say that anyone would be worried about it but the fact is that crush is a breeding ground for it.
Yes I’m sure you are factually correct, I’m sure it’s an issue and it is interesting to see that many of those photographed disembarking from extraction flights are often shown wearing masks…

I suppose what I was driving at is that in the context of events outside the airport at Kabul a Covid outbreak is to say the least a really really minor concern compared with the thugs with whips, pistols and AK-47s.

Pippin2028 · 21/08/2021 00:16

It must be absolutely awful if you have young daughters there right now and it must be terrifying for the future for women especially. It is actually a worse version of the handmaids tale in reality, under previous taliban rule women were not even allowed to leave the house unless a male relative was with them. And how awful for young women who grew up with hopes and dreams for their future and it is taken away within a few days. Its a horrific situation all around with far reaching consequences to unfold over time.

BestZebbie · 21/08/2021 00:23

BastardMonkfish - Of course the people trying to get out will go to extremes to save themselves and their loved ones.
However, I'd have thought the soldiers (as a body who operate under orders as a whole, rather than on their own individual initiative) would be keen to focus on processing people formally with as much manpower as possible and would want to reduce the numbers of children being thrown into their area - which is why I was slightly surprised to have read something suggesting they might be allowing adults to join the children instead of putting the children back outside, and wondered if posters had any other sources/info/rumour on this (given someone did mention returning the children).

DingDongThongs · 21/08/2021 00:32

Ockendon convention houses German orphans in the Lakes. My mum played with them. She learnt German from them. A lot of the words they spoke were German orders.

Really wish we could do an operation babylift. Hate the idea of children suffering m

DingDongThongs · 21/08/2021 00:33

The US websites have pictures of the airport. :(

OnTheBrink1 · 21/08/2021 00:42

@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?
Wow. It’s so so much more complicated than that.