On Saturday morning, a former translator for US companies in Kabul plunged into a humanitarian mass outside the gate at Kabul Airport with his family.
Even when he jostled and elbeled by people in the crowd, he pushed forward, desperate to secure a flight abroad for everyone who accompanied him – her husband, her 2 year old daughter, a disabled parents, three sisters , and cousins.
Then the crowd surged.
The whole family is slammed to the ground.
People trampled them where they lay down, the woman remembered just a few hours later.
He remembered someone destroyed his cellphone and someone else kicked him in the head.
He couldn’t breathe, so he tried to tear his abaya, a dress like Robel.
When he struggled at his leg, he said, he was looking for a toddler.
The girl was dead, trampled on to death by a horde.
“I feel pure terror,” he said in a telephone interview from Kabul.
“I can’t save him.” Former 39-year-old translator for US and Western military assistance groups hid on Saturday in the house in Kabul with his wife and two children.
He said the Taliban had called, told him, “his consequences face – we will kill you.” The translator, whose identity was protected like someone else in this article for security issues, said he had given up trying to get a flight after a terrible effort and finally in vain to impose the army of Taliban.
“I lost hope,” he said by telephone.
“I thought maybe I should accept the consequences.” The former other translator for the US military was also hiding.
He too, said he had left hope to get a flight for him, his wife and son after two scary robbery to the airport.
“I lost trust in the US government, who kept saying,” We will evacuate our allies.
“Evacuation is impossible.” A female Afghan journalist in Kabul said he finally wandered outside after hiding in the room since last week.
Trying to adhere to the Taliban stricture that is randomly enforced in the woman, she wore a full-body abaya.
“It’s very heavy, it makes me feel sick,” he said.
And on the road, he said, “There is no music, nothing.
What you hear is Taliban talking on TV and radio.” He said his brother-in-law appeared in front of a member of the male family with his hair open.
His brother-in-law gave him a ferocious kick and said, “Place your bloody scarf!” Also in the hiding is a former police officer of the Ministry of Home Affairs who have seen the Taliban Ransack Ministry, combing documents containing information about employees.
“Kabul has become a city of fear,” he said.