This hurt my heart this week.
Afghan mothers throw babies over barbed wire at Kabul airport and beg British troops to save them from Taliban
Desperate Afghan mothers threw their babies over barbed wire as they begged British soldiers to take them to safety away from the Taliban. The heartbreaking scenes unfolded at the airport in Kabul where thousands of people under threat by insurgents are being airlifted to by the US, Britain and other countries.
“The mothers were desperate, they were getting beaten by the Taliban. They shouted, ‘save my baby’ and threw the babies at us, some of the babies fell on the barbed wire. It was awful what happened. By the end of the night there wasn’t one man among us who was not crying,” an officer from the Parachute Regiment told Kim Sengupta, i foreign correspondent in Kabul.
Taliban fighters armed with Kalashnikov AK-47s patrol the streets nearby, stopping Afghans walking along the roads to check their papers and turning some of them away, the Independent reported. At a Taliban checkpoint, vengeful fighters are beating up Afghans, with some tearing up their passports and other travel documents.
“I was with my family, one of the Taliban got angry at something my wife said and started beating her with a stick,” said Amir Akhbar Mohammed. “I got these injuries trying to protect her. The man was actually trying to reach around me to hit her. They seem to like hitting women.”
Why don't you have an av of some pommy bastard pointing at the Union Jack if you care so much about them?
This hurt my heart this week.
Afghan mothers throw babies over barbed wire at Kabul airport and beg British troops to save them from Taliban
Desperate Afghan mothers threw their babies over barbed wire as they begged British soldiers to take them to safety away from the Taliban. The heartbreaking scenes unfolded at the airport in Kabul where thousands of people under threat by insurgents are being airlifted to by the US, Britain and other countries.
“The mothers were desperate, they were getting beaten by the Taliban. They shouted, ‘save my baby’ and threw the babies at us, some of the babies fell on the barbed wire. It was awful what happened. By the end of the night there wasn’t one man among us who was not crying,” an officer from the Parachute Regiment told Kim Sengupta, i foreign correspondent in Kabul.
Taliban fighters armed with Kalashnikov AK-47s patrol the streets nearby, stopping Afghans walking along the roads to check their papers and turning some of them away, the Independent reported. At a Taliban checkpoint, vengeful fighters are beating up Afghans, with some tearing up their passports and other travel documents.
“I was with my family, one of the Taliban got angry at something my wife said and started beating her with a stick,” said Amir Akhbar Mohammed. “I got these injuries trying to protect her. The man was actually trying to reach around me to hit her. They seem to like hitting women.”
How would you even know about my feelings?
