We must not ignore the effects of horrors our soldiers have witnessed in Afghanistan
ON Wednesday night, among a crowd of thousands, a heavily pregnant woman made her way to Abbey Gate to be processed alongside her family.
Hours later a suicide bomber in that same crowd killed 13 US Marines and more than 100 Afghans.
It is hard to imagine the desperation that drove her to run the gauntlet of the Taliban to seek a new life in the UK.
The family were being sponsored under the Government’s Afghan Relocation Scheme.
Our debt to these people runs for 20 years.
In many cases their knowledge has helped to save British lives.
Less than 24 hours later, on a plane, the woman gave birth to a baby girl.
She was one of more than 15,000 people taken out in the biggest UK airlift for 70 years.
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In the past two weeks more than 1,000 troops from 16 Air Assault Brigade airlifted 1,000 people a day.
Operation Pitting involved more than 330 flights flying 260,000 miles.
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The Parachute Regiment, the Yorkshire Regiment and Royal Regiment of Scotland all took part.
We must not ignore the effects of horrors our soldiers have witnessed and we shall support them.
Our Afghan friends did not choose to lose their country to the Taliban and their help has earned them the right to stay and to be welcomed.
