KABUL CARNAGE
Horror as Taliban thugs ‘attack women and children with whips and sticks before firing guns’ amid chaos at Kabul airport
TALIBAN thugs have attacked women and children with whips and sticks before firing their guns amid chaos at Kabul airport, reports claim.
At least half dozen people were wounded including a mother and young son, within an hour of the violence erupting in the Afghan capital.
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Shocking photos show the new horror reality for Afghans who are trying to escape the Taliban.
It comes as....
- The first Brits and Afghan refugees touched down in the UK after escaping the Taliban thanks to a dramatic RAF rescue
- Boris Johnson told Joe Biden we must not "lose gains" in Afghanistan as the two leaders finally thrashed out a strategy for the crisis
- A clip emerged showing frantic Afghan stowaways filming themselves as they cling to a US plane moments before some fell to their death
Thousands of citizens have been waiting outside Kabul Airport for a way out - but jihadi thugs used gunfire, whips, sticks, and sharp objects to maintain the crowds, reports claim.
One devastating snap shows a man carrying a bloodied child while another is pictured crying directly into the camera.
Two men tried to save a lady who was injured amid the chaos.
Afghans were left in tears as they watched their fellow countrymen being brutalized by Taliban militants in the jam-packed streets of Kabul.
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On Monday a stampede at the airport left at least five people dead as thousands stormed planes in a desperate bid to escape Taliban rule.
And, frantic stowaways clung to a US jet before some fell hundreds of feet to their death.
It comes as around 20,000 Afghans will be flown to Britain to escape the Taliban in one of the biggest resettlements in our history.
The PM will today vow to rescue women and girls in particular from the clutches of the fanatics.
He will vow to honour the “debt” the country owes the Afghan people by rescuing the most vulnerable.
The programme — one of the biggest of its kind in British history — will focus on giving asylum to women, girls and religious minorities fleeing persecution.
It will run for five years, with 5,000 Afghans offered asylum this year alone.
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It comes on top of the existing ARAP scheme, which will give asylum to 5,000 interpreters and other Afghans who worked with Britain over the past 20 years.
This year, 10,000 desperate Afghans will be given a home in the UK, with a total of 25,000 welcomed over the next five years.
And last night an RAF Voyager carrying the first Afghans cleared to come to the UK touched down at Brize Norton.
Yesterday a Taliban leader declared their victory a “proud moment for the nation” and vowed to impose Sharia law on Afghanistan.
Zabihullah Mujahid appeared in public for the first time after 20 years in the shadows after the fanatics' stunning success in defeating the government.
Mujahid said the Taliban “are committed to the rights of women” but added that would be “under the system of Sharia".
Many had doubted he even existed but in an extraordinary moment he took to the stage to say "after 20 years of struggle we have emancipated our country and expelled foreigners".
"This is a proud moment for the whole nation," he said.
The henchman said Afghans have "given great sacrifices for the establishment of an Islamic government" and the people "have rights to live under their own laws".
The Taliban are now tightening their grip on power following their lightning victory that has shocked the world.
While Sharia simply refers to laws that are derived from Islam, the Taliban have an extreme interpretation of what this means in practice.
Militantswhen they ruled in the 1990s and many have spoken about their fear about what the future may hold under the Taliban.
'FED BODIES TO THE DOGS'
In July, it was reported that officials had published a decree ordering henchmen to turn over lists of young girls and widows under the age of 45.
One woman who had her eye gouged out by the radical insurgents after being shot eight times revealed how the terror group “fed bodies to the dogs”.
Khatera was surrounded by three militants while she was heading home from work in Ghazni who then opened fire on her after checking her ID.
The 33-year-old, who was two months pregnant at the time of the brutal attack, was also knifed and had her eye gouged out.
She was rendered unconscious and left to die after the vicious assault.
The mum told it was her father, a former Taliban fighter, who conspired the attack on her.
She told the outlet: "They (the Taliban) first torture us (women) and then discard our bodies to show as a specimen of punishment. Sometimes our bodies are fed to the dogs."
The harrowing account comes as fighters reportedly marked the doors of prominent Afghan women with paint as female TV anchors were taken off the airwaves.
Homira Rezai said militants are allegedly drawing up lists of women to target for future punishments.
She told on Monday: "Just an hour ago, I received an update from Kabul where they are going house to house searching for women who were activists, women who were bloggers, YouTubers, any women who had a role in the development of civil society in Afghanistan.”
It's feared that the collapse of the Afghan government will spark a resurgence in Al-Qaeda and ISIS terrorism.
A new ISIS splinter cell is waging a war against the Taliban as it seeks a new caliphate in the country.
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ISIS militants have been battling the Taliban for control of the war-torn country for the last six years with little success.
Former US Secretary of State warned that the Taliban siege could provide a “hotbed” for Islamist terrorism.
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