Kenkeong / Darjeeling / Kolkata: Some still have a nightmare from Weeklong terror, while some share experiences of contrasting diplomatic courtesy by the Taliban.
But the united feelings of almost all the Bengal returning from the land of Afghanistan is that reliefs to eventually return home from the state of commotion, chaos and uncertain future.
Sitting at the house of the naya bazaar kurna, Kishan Gurung, a former service deployed at the Italian Embassy in Kabul, remembered that a terrible last week was spent at his workplace, according to him, “more rude than for years of experience in Indian soldiers “.
“We tried to escape from Afghanistan since August 15 and managed to reach the airport on August 17 but was stopped by the Taliban.
We were more than 90 people and the Taliban held us in Gunpoint and began to question each of us by whip in hand,” said Gurung.
They made a citizen of Afghanistan knelt while pointing at the gun on his head.
Seeing all this, a Afghan woman suffered a heart attack and died there.
Gurung is still shivering to remember how one of them carries a whip asks him about his citizenship.
“I somehow said in Hindi that I came from Hindustan.
The man asked if there was no work in India.
I did not reply.
He asked if I would return to Afghanistan.
I said I wouldn’t and he left me,” said Gurung .
He and many others returned from the airport and had to spend the next few nights in the page of a hotel that slept in a garbage bag to protect them from cold.
“Waking up for shots has become routine and we eat only on biscuits and water.
We tried to go to the airport again on August 20 but the view of several bodies scattered on the road made us back,” he said.
Gurung and all groups were saved by NATO officials on Saturday and were taken to the airbase from them flown to Kazakhstan.
He landed in Delhi four hours later where he flew to Bagdogra.
“It still feels like a nightmare.
But I was relieved to return home with my family,” he said.
On Monday, there were at least 44 people who returned to other Afghan landed in Bagdogra.
Subash Subba (44), another former army and Kalimpong resident who recently left the house to take the job of a security guard in Kabul, said: “We relate to the Indian Embassy since August 15 and on Friday we finally managed to reach Kabul Airport Where we had to wait 24 hours.
Then, Indian Air Force officers arrived and helped us on a plane to Delhi.
“Sambhu Bomzan, a citizen of Rohini in Darjeeling, said:” The situation was sad behind there.
Everyone fled in fear.
“Other motorists from Darjeeling, Rajesh Thapa, said Taliban shot in the air and on the streets of the open jeep.
“We had a ticket to fly on August 16 but we could not take a flight.
Many people are still trapped there,” Thapa said, who worked as a security guard Sarbajit Mukherjee, a resident of Jalan Jatin Das Kolkata and a professor of international relations at Kandahar University , said there was a panic between the part of the Afghan citizens who used it.
To work as a translator or closely related to the US Embassy.
He, along with several other Indians, has a subtle part abroad.
“Those who used to work with the US government were worried that the Taliban would owed them and it caused a rush outside Kabul Airport,” said Mukherjee, who had returned home on Sunday night.