Afghanistan, the voices of families fleeing Kabul: “Help us, there is no more time”

“Help us, there is no more time. If they don’t allow us to enter the camp we will die. We have been here for two days, but every hour is more and more dangerous. Here are the shots, here, do you hear them? Our wives are terrified, they no longer even believe in evacuation, no one comes to pick us up, time passes and we are crowded behind a closed gate. Meanwhile, the supplies of food and water are running out, we have not slept for 48 hours “. Sakhi is a former Afghan collaborator that Adnkronos had already followed on his grueling journey from home to Herat to Kabul. Today, after two days, he tells the Adnkronos the wait for safety, crowded together with dozens and dozens of men, women and children, including babies, along the fence of the Kabul airport. Here, from where the humanitarian airlift brings pieces of the population disintegrated by the Taliban occupation, the families of the fleeing Afghans are waiting their turn. Sakhi says, interrupted by his wife who remembers “there is no more time, we will die”. He brings her back to calm, meanwhile behind him the little ones cry desperately among the planes that take off and a barrage of bullets that explode as if they were fireworks. (PHOTO) “The children are exhausted by fatigue, seven have fallen ill here in the open – continues Sakhi – They do not sleep, they cry, they are afraid”. The photos he sends are a punch to the pit of the stomach. The little ones are inconsolable, the grown-ups discouraged, like the child curled up on the ground in the hope of falling asleep. The dust covers them as if they were old furnishings abandoned to neglect. They have no toys, on their journey from Herat which lasted over a day they brought only the bare necessities. “For 48 hours we have been waiting at least to take shelter in the camp, it is not safe here, every hour more is a risk and we do not even know if we will arrive in the evening. Our wives are terrified, they do not even believe in evacuation anymore, we are running out of supplies. of food and water – Sakhi continues, out of breath and out of breath – We are afraid that someone will remember us “. (by Silvia Mancinelli)