The cry for help of a former interpreter: “I’m out of the airport but they won’t let me in”

“Help me, my family and I are here outside the Kabul airport. The Taliban shoot, they don’t let anyone pass. There is no time. They kill the children, they have no mercy. We wait for them to let us in, I know it’s taking off. another plane and it could be the last. Nobody calls us, but we can’t stay here, we can’t live with the Taliban. Help. ” It is a cry of pain that Sayed throws at the Adnkronos. Since last Friday, he left Herat where from 2008 to 2012 he worked as an interpreter at Camp Stone for the Italian military contingent and then served as a captain in the Afghan army, he is in Kabul with his wife and two children aged 10 and 6. , waiting to get on that airlift that will take them to a new life. “My name in the list of former collaborators to bring to Italy was perhaps written late and still no one calls me – he says – Every time a plane starts the engines we think it’s over for us. There is no more time, here we don’t We can stay. Here they will kill us. I see others leave, but for four years I have been a faithful collaborator, Italy takes me away from here with my family, I served my country as a front-line officer, but today nothing remains of what it once was. Do something for God’s sake “. (by Silvia Mancinelli)