Video: Toddler handed over the wall at Kabul airport, as the chaos continues
In a video doing the rounds on social media, it can be seen that a toddler is being handed over a wall to western soldiers at Kabul airport.
A baby being handed over the barbed wire to us soldiers in Kabul. The parent would rather be separated in hopes the child can escape the t ban and have a chance at a better life pic.twitter.com/SrvApXlsXP
— Haldous Uxley (@NotMeUsGenX) August 20, 2021
Outside the airport, the situation remains chaotic. The Taliban have been blocking Afghans trying to flee.
Britain is unable to evacuate unaccompanied #children from #Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Ben Wallace says when asked about footage which shows a young child being handed over a wall to Western soldiers at Kabul airport.https://t.co/o9YE3LkB9D pic.twitter.com/h1hkudXZ4F
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) August 19, 2021
The militants have been going door-to-door to find targets and threaten their family members, reported BBC.
“There are a high number of individuals that are currently being targeted by the Taliban and the threat is crystal clear,” Christian Nellemann, who heads the group behind the report, told the BBC.
“It is in writing that, unless they give themselves in, the Taliban will arrest and prosecute, interrogate and punish family members on behalf of those individuals.”
He warned that anyone on the Taliban’s blacklist was in severe danger and that there could be mass executions.
Anti-Taliban protests have taken place in several cities. In the capital Kabul, demonstrators waved the national flag while there were reportedly casualties among protesters in Asadabad.