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We understand. Sit down, sit down!

- Sit down! - Sit down!

IN 2020, THE US AND NATO ALLIES

SWEAR TO REMOVE AFGHANISTAN TROOPS.

We signed an agreement to bring ours back home.

We want to bring ours home.

Let's end the war longest in America.

I will not send another generation of Americans

for the war in Afghanistan.

TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE DEADLINE,

TWO COMPANIES OF AMERICAN MARINES

WERE PLACED AT KABUL AIRPORT.

THE MISSION WAS TO EVACUATE AMERICAN CITIZENS

AND AFGHANANS "AT RISK" THAT THEY HAD HELPED AMERICANS.

we didn't understand the scale and scope

than the evacuation would eventually become.

- Step aside. - They made it clear:

"It will be quick and simple. It's in and out."

But that didn't happen here.

Get up.

It was a humanitarian catastrophe.

TWO DAYS AFTER ARRIVAL OF THE MARINES,

THE TALIBANS TAKEN KABUL.

we never imagined that we would take Kabul.

We left victorious and happy.

We came to conquer Kabul. Everyone was scared to death of us.

It was a terrifying height and complete chaos.

Everyone ran to the airport to leave Afghanistan.

We feared that a war would start. We were all afraid.

It was about our families.

It was about the city where I was born and raised.

Let's get out there!

I am the commander of the 1st Battalion 8th Marines.

Around August 12, 2021, the doorbell rang in the middle of the night

and things accelerated very quickly.

And on the 13th, we were in Afghanistan.

Are ready? Let's go out.

We went to Afghanistan with what we had on our backs.

we got off the plane and we immediately got to work.

I only had 150 people

and lack of equipment needed in the first few days.

Here they are.

we knew we were there to start the mission,

which was to evacuate endangered Afghans, American citizens.

We thought it would be a process relatively orderly.

Security would have to be maintained at least near Kabul.

We didn't think it would end how it ended.

Kabul airport is located in a valley.

It is surrounded by mountainous terrain on the north side,

which also surrounds it to the west.

It's a big airfield. It was a strategic location.

where provisions and troops entered and left the country.

It was a military and civil airport, all at once.

The CIA, the Afghans and some of our coalition partners

held large portions from that base.

There was a kind of outer wall.

Everyone had their fair share that big cake.

In the first two days, everyone was in their positions

and security remained stable. Nothing new.

The planes took people from there,

but that I saw, they were not Afghan civilians.

the planes took high-level Afghans,

diplomats from our embassy.

the civil evacuation had not yet started.

Therefore, We were going to evacuate the VIPs first.

Two days after we arrived... We arrived on the 13th,

and on the 15th, it was pandemonium.

The 15th was when the Taliban entered Kabul.

TALIBAN COMMANDER

I fought in jihad for 15 years.

the americans killed two of my family members.

That's what made me want to fight in jihad.

TALIBANS SPECIAL FORCES

Since I was a kid, I always wanted make them explode.

I was small but I felt it so intensely.

I hated them for their savagery.

TALIBAN COMMANDER

Everything is fine.

Americans were our enemies for 20 years,

and we defeated them. The sacrifice of the suicide bombers

and the blood of our men were worth it.

TALIBAN COMMANDER

I was the leader of our suicide troops.

We used to smuggle guns in our rectums.

We even used these things.

Look, we put a bullet here.

The Americans gave up to fight against us.

our simple technology defeated their modern technology.

AUGUST 15TH

When we entered Kabul, We realized that the city was going to fall.

It felt like a dream.

Wherever I went, it felt like I was in a dream.

The first day I arrived in Kabul,

we didn't expect for Kabul to fall so quickly.

When we arrived in Kabul, the Afghan government fled.

We ran to the Presidential Palace.

the first to get there he would be a hero.

We entered the Presidential Palace.

Nobody resisted against us.

This was the center of corruption and we conquered it.

- In the name of God. - In the name of God.

we were very happy when we occupied the palace.

But for us, it was not a palace. It was a brothel.

I arrived at the operations center, where was our general.

It was then that I knew that the government had fallen,

that the Afghan president left

and that the diplomatic mission in Afghanistan had been closed.

We looked at the 10 or 20 TV screens

and only showed the civil airport,

the southern part of the base,

and thousands of people running.

And I could just skip the meal who had gotten up,

put down the water bottle,

put the kit back on, load the shotgun.

I looked at some people, I called them and we ran.

And the sea of ​​humans who wanted to be evacuated

was right at our door.

many families carrying suitcases...

STUDENT AND ENTREPRENEUR

...and headed to the airport.

we arrived at the airport at one in the morning...

STUDENT AND ACTIVIST

... passing by Taliban checkpoints.

They're shooting from that side. Let's get out of here.

All the Afghans wanted to flee,

to get to the airport and board a plane.

It felt like the end of the world, at Kabul airport.

The initial charge must have been around 5,000 people.

Civilians were already starting to arrive.

Basically, there was a knock on the door. and they said, "I have to leave."

They said, "I have documents. my husband was an interpreter

and served with you. I gotta go."

The women cried, appeared with children and extended family.

We weren't open yet. for evacuation operations.

We didn't have everyone there.

There were a large number of civilians who had passed the gate.

The base had been invaded. The airfield was busy.

For them those planes meant freedom.

They settled there to block everything, basically to say:

"They're going to put me on the plane. I'm not leaving here until they do."

We called the 150 marines that I had to open the airfield.

We had planes in the air, making time. They couldn't land.

If anyone is at the airfield,

a plane cannot land can't even take off.

There was no way in or out.

We tried to keep them off track to continue to disembark

our additional strengths and groceries.

We depended on it. If we had missed the airfield,

I don't doubt that we would all have died.

So from midnight until five in the morning,

we kept them at bay.

And try to put it into words, that fight that night...

It was body to body.

went to use shotguns as impact weapons.

It wasn't pleasant for them. nor for us.

They completely surrounded us in front of the terminal,

near the planes of Afghan passengers.

They surrounded us with barbed wire.

all in afghanistan and all over the world

began to focus on the airport.

People thought that America was going to evacuate all of Afghanistan.

Therefore, the focus of the mujahideen was also at the airport.

When we arrived in Kabul, I was responsible for the airport.

We surrounded him with a thousand suicide bombers.

The americans were at the terminal and on the runway.

There were times of some tension,

due to high risk of a shootout with the Americans.

AUGUST 16TH

On the morning of the 16th, Taliban infiltrators in the crowd

started to attack the marines at the airfield.

That's when things started to get somewhat out of control.

when it dawned, a Taliban fighter appeared,

shooting into the air, and one of our marines killed him.

A clean shot took his life.

That's when I shot the second shot, in the chest.

We've been fighting them for 20 years.

He was a target, a threat. He had to die.

there was a shooting right in front of us,

while the numbers did not stop increasing.

Now they were in order of eight or ten thousand.

We had opened the airfield. It was a big win.

On the 16th of August, when I woke up,

I only heard: "This family is gone. That family left."

And there was a rumor that about 900 people

had left Afghanistan.

and what people from different categories

were able to leave Afghanistan tonight.

The second day was amazing because more of us came to town.

Everything had changed. We were so happy.

It was very strange.

As we pass the people, they saw our turbans,

we looked like mullahs, and they fled soon.

The women and children They were terrified of us.

We've had very dark times in afghanistan

when the Taliban took over power.

Before the Taliban took over, we had a simple life.

It wasn't perfect. It wasn't perfect, but it was good.

When the Taliban took Afghanistan,

i was in my freshman year from the university.

I was devastated...

STUDENT

...because I knew they wouldn't let girls work or study.

We are the main victims, the women.

And I fear the changes that afghan women

brought to Afghanistan...

They fought for years

for the possibility of having an education, to work.

And that day I thought

that all your efforts were ruined in one day.

The women were thinking in homicides,

in brutality, in whippings, in forced marriages.

It was what all women had in mind...

AFGHAN WOMEN'S MINISTER

... especially those who worked. They knew what the reality was.

This was a horror. the insecurity, uncertainty and brutality.

What's up, sister?

- The Taliban are here. In the city. - Kabul has fallen. Ended.

The Taliban entered the city and we are leaving.

People are scared to death.

Everyone ran.

People saw the mujahedin like monsters that eat people,

who kill women, children

and all who don't have a beard.

No mujahid, no Afghani, no Taliban

I wanted our Muslim brothers and sisters

depart with the help of the infidels

and adopt the American way of life.

Our mission was not to let no one leaves the country.

How were they so scared?

people flooded the airport like a wave.

No fences, no barriers, nothing could stop them.

The Taliban are shooting on that side,

and the Americans of this.

Kabul is here in force. A nation is on the run.

see how people flee from the Taliban.

It looks like Judgment Day. People try to escape from hell.

All that foundation was porous.

It really was. It had many weaknesses.

There were security holes throughout the base.

People jumping over walls and trying to get in.

They began to jump fences, to enter the airport.

It was 10 o'clock. I looked to the left

and thousands appeared coming from another hole in the wall.

we didn't know that part of the base.

I think the estimate was 24 thousand Afghans

inside the airport,

and an unknown number outside the airport.

Now we had to share our small forces

to run around the airfield, go get people, gather them

and start keeping them off for several hours.

The clue was the mission. Keep the track open at all costs.

tanks and soldiers advanced on us.

The Americans started shooting.

They shot into the air, they told us to back off.

Back!

- Back! - Back the fuck!

That was the first moment where I thought I was going to die.

The threat of a suicide bomber

or a lone wolf with a gun...

People were not searched. I don't know what they had with them.

could easily have killed us all in an instant.

Don't shoot!

We had thousands of people in panic.

Go over there! Over there!

Or your family will be crushed.

Go over there!

go there or your family will be crushed.

in that crowd, saw with my own eyes

a mother with two children who died.

She left them there.

she took her husband and in the other children by the hand

and she said, "Leave us. They are dead. We will."

To make way for the plane,

we had Apaches to fly as low as possible

to drive people away and get them out of the way.

Then a C-17 arrived, because the airfield was open.

It was mass hysteria. It was seen in their eyes.

They passed right over us.

drove us away, ran over the marines.

They punched, scratched, screamed, which led to closing the airfield.

We ran after that plane.

Staying in Afghanistan was unthinkable.

We had to leave the country, wherever it went.

It was their beacon of hope.

They thought they had to catch him. to run away.

And we had to run a mile to the other side,

while we were chasing everyone.

And my position, at the time, was to take them back.

It turned into a big fight.

I still get calls from the operations center:

"The airfield is no longer open. You have to get them out of there."

And I: "Yes, I already know."

People were all around.

I went where the pilot could see me if you look outside.

And finally looked and made eye contact with me.

I pointed at him and said: "You have to go. Now."

And he started to move the C-17 very slowly.

people went up over the plane.

maybe they thought to get out of the country

clinging to the outside of a C-17.

I see the C-17 picking up speed.

And while we were grappling, we stopped and watched,

while the C-17 captured the attention of the crowd.

And everything was silent.

Someone fell out of the plane.

Four or five people fell. The plane hit two.

When I saw the corpses, I started to shake.

When we saw this, We gave up and went home.

That put the brakes on the situation.

The C-17 had finally left, those people had fallen.

Maybe some people on the ground have realized:

"There must be another way, because they won't let us out now."

We were nearing the end of... A day and a half would have passed.

And more people began to arrive.

The sun was starting to set.

We missed the airfield a few more times.

A commander never wants have to tell your men

that he doesn't know what to do.

That moment, I did not know what to do.

I got a call on the radio. They said we were going to get help

of one unit of the Afghan Special Forces.

I thought, "This is great.

It is a strength of the host nation,

who knows this culture, speak this language.

They will help.

I just need more people. I don't care who it is."

The Afghan unit that was there...

took people out of there

running over everyone and targeting them.

They killed us.

I saw it from afar. It was already dark.

I could only see who was run over and shot

through the vehicle's headlight.

It was a horrendous scene.

There were people to be executed at the airfield,

and it was horrible to see that happen.

But it cleared the airfield.

The arrival of this Afghan unit was what suppressed the situation.

I don't know how it would have been if they hadn't come.

That night and the next morning, there were no more large crowds.

AUGUST 17

We decided to give a press conference.

Spokesperson for the Taliban

because people waited in fear

or run to the airport to flee Afghanistan.

People feared for their lives.

At the press conference, I tried to speak directly to the people.

There is nothing to fear. Do not flee the country.

All the hate is gone.

Your Excellency, the Supreme Leader, decreed

that all those who opposed us will be forgiven.

They will all be forgiven.

Families waiting at the airport, afraid, ready to flee,

must go home now.

no one will go after them nor will it hurt them.

The women's problem is important.

The Islamic Emirate has committed

to protect women's rights according to sharia law.

We promise you that there will be no any violence against them.

We will not allow discrimination.

When Zabihullah Mujahid gave the press conference,

said, "Here we are. We control Afghanistan.

NEWS PIVOT

"Let's let the women work, do and wear whatever they want."

But that's not what they did.

In 2016, I started as a reporter of social issues,

and then, I became a news anchor.

When the Taliban came, I called my colleagues.

I asked if I should go to work or not.

They said, "No, it's risky.

Don't come. They don't want women here."

When the regime changed, I wanted to continue working.

I wanted to stay strong but they didn't let me through,

even though I have my identification.

But all the male employees were able to enter.

They threatened me and told me:

"You cannot work here. It's a new regime."

When I posted this video on twitter,

did not expect to go viral so quickly.

After that I got an offer from the British government to say:

"We want to save your life.

You have to get out of Afghanistan. That video made you a target."

my father worked at the British embassy.

We knew that if the Taliban find out

that he worked there,

could kill him and to all my family.

I was the interim minister of Women's Affairs.

They told me that if I didn't leave in the next three days,

would be murdered.

And that's when I decided Leave the country.

The 17th had arrived. The airstrip was open.

More marines were arriving.

We started to establish security at the gates

where we were going to process the operations.

Receiving people through the gates and take them to the terminal

to process it. And then put them on planes.

Formally begin evacuation.

we would have three points processing,

the North and East Gates. And the Abbey Gate was the other.

there were a lot more people trying to get past what we thought.

We started to disembark more forces of the planes,

and the sea of ​​humans began to appear beyond the gates.

the other gates they weren't bad yet.

Back!

You have to back off. Stop asking the Marines.

You have to back off and get yourself in order.

This won't work.

When we got there, we still couldn't accept people

because we didn't have available tactics.

We had to position people and ensure defensive depth.

We checked the positions, we will entrench ourselves,

in case the Taliban fire again.

- It's full of Taliban out there. - How crazy.

Let's go out.

our superiors, generals and admirals,

were interacting with the Taliban leadership.

They defined the conditions to get out on time.

"On the 31st, they leave."

We received a lot of requests from below, but that one came from above.

I was told: "Now we work with the Taliban."

"Do we work with the Taliban? I just killed a bunch of them."

They made a deal with the Taliban.

So we had a strange almost peace with them.

They dealt with outer security and we held the gate.

The Taliban were there, in the midst of the people.

The dynamic was changing before our eyes.

They said they would help us to control the crowd.

We thought, "How so? Do we work with the Taliban?"

I couldn't believe it.

- Who are those? - Taliban.

- The fucking Taliban? - It's the Taliban.

Don't mess with them. Don't shoot them.

I will never forget stand side by side with the Taliban.

And the deep feeling of hate that I felt

when he looked them in the eye.

and the anthill to go through my column

and the instinct to want to fight. It was clear that they felt it too.

they didn't look at us with any good will in their eyes.

our units were very close to them.

I had been fighting them for almost 13 years.

Now I saw them in your last moments here,

surrounded at the airport,

with just barbed wire between us and them.

God willing, we'd kick them out completely in the following days.

were leaving the country, and that was very exciting.

We told the Americans to be wary of the mujahedin,

because many had been tortured by the Americans,

and we feared let them open fire

or make some of them explode.

And the entire ceasefire would crumble.

My role was ambassador American in Afghanistan.

After arriving at the airport, we could contemplate

the crowds outside and how to deal with them.

And how to remove those that we wanted to evacuate from the country,

how to make it happen.

the marines were trying to deal with security.

And in that case, there were 30 marines there

against 3 thousand people pushing.

what we didn't anticipate it was pure desperation

people's fear and will

to put themselves at great risk

to go out and withdraw the families of Afghanistan.

- What the hell are we doing? - We're being dominated.

We will. Back!

it was a fight every minute of every day.

If they penetrated the gate, we would fail our mission.

Back!

Back the fuck!

Back!

C'mon C'mon.

That's when we secured the gates that the fight really started.

we had to realize how to operate at the gates.

How to open the gate and let in some for processing?

And then close the gate without losing it,

without coming the flood.

Families stay together. Back!

Back the fuck!

When do we start operating at the gates,

the human disaster began of this entire operation.

When you have kilometers of people, glued together,

one on top of the other.

They were sitting there, waiting. your turn to pass the gate.

The situation on the ground was something

that I would never live in any of my detachments.

And we did the best we could.

Daily life at those gates it wasn't clean.

It was dirty, full of stress.

Lift him up.

Get up.

Back!

What I saw there shocked me greatly.

Women and children. I felt really bad for all of them.

During the American evacuation,

Afghans suffered a lot.

They were hungry, thirsty, and conditions were terrible.

When we went to the Abbey Gate,

the heat was unbearable.

I saw seven people die of heat and hunger.

When we went to the airport, We went to the Abbey Gate.

There were Talibans there.

We were afraid of being attacked.

We went there.

There was no electricity, what was good,

because it was dark. Nobody saw us.

There were so many people you could say that there was no oxygen in the air.

I was going to leave and I didn't know for how long,

so I wanted to take my brothers with me.

That day we had a farewell very sad for our parents.

SISTER

We were all wrecked.

I kissed my mother on the forehead.

I didn't know if my family was going to survive.

kiss my mother on the forehead is the most painful memory

of my last day in Kabul.

I asked myself if I ever I would give my hand again

or a kiss to my mother.

That was the most painful thing.

We left soon for the airport.

we had never traveled to abroad

without our parents.

I had never heard gunshots shot so close.

I thought: "To the next bullet, I'm going to lose my ear or my nose."

- Back! - Come on, back!

They go! Back! You have to go over there.

We waited, desperate to enter the airport,

with the hope that we won't be hit by a bullet.

We used non-lethal ammunition. Riot control weapons.

Back!

We were aggressive.

We took a very aggressive position with our security.

Back! They go!

Tear gas.

Ammunition.

Rubber bullets shotgun shots.

- Who shot you? - It was the foreigners.

We went to collect a corpse and they did this to me.

listen, we need of stun grenades!

We need non-lethal grenades!

my house is next to the airport.

I was there selling water.

They spent there night after night.

there were so many people that there was nowhere to sleep.

everyone wandered or stood up like this,

trying to approach the gate.

There were children to be trampled on.

A child and an elderly person died,

after being hit by tear gas.

It was the worst feeling ever.

We, and everyone around us, we ran for our lives.

we couldn't move and it was hard to breathe.

It was horrible.

Some families have given up of trying to get into the airport.

They said, "It's not worth it die for it.

We're not leaving here. We could die trying to get out of here.

We can be killed."

Mother! I want to go home!

Mother!

I want to go home!

people were exhausted and emotionally sensitive.

I went to the airport,

and we didn't know if we could make it to the gate.

So we came back,

but that scene will always remain in my mind.

If you have a passport, have to go there.

If you have a passport, go that way.

- No. Wait. - Get up. Back!

There was a letter that the State Department

should send to people.

We quickly realize that everyone sent it back

or took a picture and sent it to everyone.

Because it didn't have specific names.

Some people shouted:

"Help-me, I have this letter from the embassy."

Or show identification, but it was not correct.

some had the correct identification,

and we helped them. "Go, jump."

But the others, that we had to send away

because they don't have that requirement...

What could we do? We had to push them away.

There were women, children, begging, crying, screaming.

"Please sir! The Taliban will kill me."

Help-me! I want to help my family!

The Taliban will enter at home! Please!

what they went through, trying to get through the gates,

I can't even imagine how they felt on the other side.

we dealt with people covered in blood.

They may have been shot or wounded,

or have been there for days without water or food.

They were...

They turned against each other, because they had nowhere to go.

Go to a gate, and the heat and the smell were intense.

All the gates stank, but the Abbey was the worst.

I think they were next to a sewer channel.

They were in the midst of feces and urine.

If we pulled them, that's where we got them.

If we pushed them, that's where they ended up.

We went down to the canal.

we stayed inside for four hours.

It was full of rubbish, the sewage came here.

people were inside

just to try to escape And survive.

Back then, it was every man for himself. trying to save themselves.

we saw people arrive who did not survive, who died.

We handled everything.

Children to be pushed, crushed,

caught by the crowd.

wounded arrived, to die, to bleed.

there were people who was there for 4 or 5 days.

And yet, they were still there.

There were women giving birth ahead of us.

Families delivering babies and to give up.

And trying to go back.

"Just save this."

This was one case among hundreds of children to be delivered.

And it's sad to see these newborns, these kids...

there were women with dead babies in her arms,

because they died in your arms while trying to get through the gate.

They gave us their baby and we asked:

"What do you want me to do with this?"

It became normal for us, and it's sad to say.

Some girls on my team...

I very much doubt that they ever forget it.

The orphans who passed by, whose parents died in the crowd.

We had countless men and women in the search tents,

taking care of babies, small children. The parents never passed the gate.

Some children separated from their families.

didn't know about the parents because they didn't survive.

I haven't seen my mother since yesterday. She is lost.

She comes. Is she coming back, is she okay?

In the following days, we started to receive people at the gates.

Over here, please.

We will. Can go.

- Over here, please. - We will. This way.

Can go. Continues.

The Consulates of the Dept. of state checked the documents.

We tried to welcome people, do your verification

and take them to the terminal to be able to fly.

The gate opened just a little to let people pass.

Over here, please. It is going to be alright.

Thanks.

As I had documents and emails, a soldier called me.

He said, "Okay, come on." It's safe."

We achieved.

We were there for four days, trying to get through the gate.

The soldiers took them out of the canal

and took us to the airport.

He wished they hadn't run away of your own country,

of your own soil.

He wished they had shared

of our victory and the defeat of America.

It was a very sad situation.

They leave their country with nothing.

I felt so sorry for them

because I never imagined have to leave my life,

everything I worked so hard for, leave it behind.

And try to wait and pray to get on a plane and leave the country.

They searched us when we entered.

They put bracelets on us wristband identification.

When we got on the plane, there were a lot of people on board.

my brother and my sister were with me.

We were very sad about everything what we went through to get there.

Thoughts flooded my mind

of how we managed to get by

and how terrible it had been.

The circumstances in which I left were a matter of life and death.

we left a place that we never thought to leave.

but we let it because we can't live.

We had the tracking system.

we were documenting how many citizens we have helped.

There were over a hundred thousand.

And the threat report also increased.

We knew that one of the gates was a target.

Some suicide bomber.

Something was going to happen.

They were scared of a bomb there.

There is a potential attack of the Islamic State

in the next 48 hours.

Will they attack us or the mob?

To us and the public at the same time. It's going to screw everyone up.

ISIS threat reports increased more and more

and so they were all in a state of alert.

- Cum! -Fucks!

The North and East Gates gave to roads,

exposed to the worst what could have happened.

A vehicle with a device improvised explosive.

Lots of explosive material in those things.

- Everyone come here. - Move!

Come on, come on. over there. We will!

What is the car?

How do you know it's a VBIED?

Army Information. This is bad, this is very bad.

- Get down! - Everybody get down.

Get down!

I don't like that van.

I don't like them walking so slowly.

We received information about the Islamic State.

They planned to attack with a car bomb and a suicide at the airport.

AUGUST 26 11 DAYS AFTER THE TAKEOUT OF THE TALIBANS

We took stronger measures at the North and East Gates on the 26th,

because the information started to increase.

In person, I no longer felt comfortable.

Therefore, we decided to stop receiving people at those gates.

The North and East Gates stopped receiving individuals.

more people started to go to the Abbey Gate

because they realized it was open.

Everyone had a backpack.

So it's very difficult with such a threat,

because everyone is a threat.

As we approached the gate,

in front of the canal, there was a big bang.

They said there could be an explosive device.

the rumor has faded and we continued to receive people.

We said, "What the hell?" We backed off a little, not much,

because they still received people. I was always afraid.

The bomb exploded. I was about 50 meters away.

a woman's head was separated from the body

and she got stuck on the barbed wire fence.

It was carnage, something like I had never seen.

We saw disbanded marines.

We've seen people do this and we knew they were treating them.

I was inside the blast zone of the explosive device.

I saw the flash and felt the heat.

She threw me to the ground

and took it with a splinter on my right side.

Many marines and sailors that were in front of me,

were soldiers under my command and died.

In the immediate aftermath, there were shootings.

I heard gunshots.

It was some of the marines at the gate to fire.

an explosive device never come alone.

can follow a sniper attack.

There is always something to accompany you.

We strengthen the position, we become difficult to kill.

They shot a lot of people.

Americans were terrified and they shot everyone.

The explosion took place 80 or 100 meters from us.

When they shot people,

we saw the bullet wounds in their bodies.

My daughter!

They shot me.

When we got there, it was crazy.

There were corpses all over the place.

thrown bodies to the sewer channel.

Others were trapped on barbed wire.

The explosion took place at five or six meters from us, in the canal.

I think I was unconscious for a minute or two.

When I woke up, I had sewage water in my mouth.

And when I got up, there was human flesh

in my clothes and in my hair.

Three of my brothers died.

had big wounds of shrapnel in the head.

THE ISLAMIC STATE GROUP CLAIMED

THE ATTACK ON THE ABBEY GATE.

THREE AMERICAN SOLDIERS DIED IN THE EXPLOSION.

MORE THAN 170 AFGHAN CIVILIANS WERE KILLED.

The Americans withdrew into the airport.

closed the gates and left us deserted.

so people had no chance of getting in.

For several nights, the smell was so strong

that we couldn't sleep.

Many dogs came because there was meat everywhere

and they were eating it.

The gates were closed. We no longer accept people.

The people who were at the base to whom we did the processing,

our function was to put them on a plane.

- I'm the biggest. - Yes yes.

- Hello Hello. - Thank you for your help.

Thank you for your cooperation. Thank you thank you.

That's it, finished! We achieved.

We were quickly approaching of the 31st of August.

The chaos was really over.

we had the feeling that we were no longer welcome.

We had to leave. The Taliban were there at the door

saying, "31, go away."

the plan of destruction came into force in the last few days.

we destroy all sensitive equipment.

To make military equipment useless for the Taliban.

It became a kind of free-for-all.

destroy windows, break vehicles, break furniture.

We were getting ready to board and it was surreal. I don't know why I cry.

I only wished that we could leave.

And we did. And when the plane took off,

I thought, "My God, it's over."

It was the best feeling.

It was really good.

It was the last day. my unit

it was the last security unit of the Marines in Afghanistan.

This was the end of an era,

and I think we did very well to many people

and we brought many things for that country.

But see the Taliban take it again,

this will always be difficult. Ever.

We were crowded, like the evacuees.

It wasn't very comfortable.

but you try to make your mind don't wander too far.

So clean your gun,

look back and reflect about what we just did.

Dear fellow Americans, the war in afghanistan ended.

The extraordinary success of this mission

it was due to the incredible capabilities and to courage and selfless

of the American military and our diplomats

and secret services.

Twenty years. Obviously not a success,

but we have to live with what we couldn't do.

AUGUST, 31

The plan was for me to catch the last flight out.

We took off around midnight.

I was very quiet and very melancholy.

It was very sad.

A big loss.

The last planes took off.

Twenty years of invasion. This is the end.

That night, I filmed my friends.

- The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan! - Long life!

- The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan! - Long life!

We are free. occupied afghanistan it is now a free Afghanistan.

the special forces will clear this area.

half an hour ago, the Americans were here.

They go. Look professional. We're being filmed.

Good job guys!

I saw a really brutal war. Thousands of people died.

As an Afghan, it was a moment very proud of me.

And I knew that my friends

would not need to perform a suicide attack.

they destroyed all planes and cars.

- They left nothing intact. - What a mess.

For 20 years they used your modern equipment

to destroy, kill and oppress us.

This was...

... the end.

FEBRUARY 2022

Our lives have changed a lot.

When the Taliban came, all help is gone.

people are broke and there is a lot of unemployment.

I haven't worked in five months. I stayed at home.

I even sold my curtains to buy bread for my children.

Before getting on that plane,

I never thought of running away to some side

or becoming a refugee.

When we got on the plane and he took flight,

I thought, "Now, I'm a refugee."

We left everything behind. Our parents, our country, everything.

When we left our home,

our life, our studies, our friends and our country,

we feel numb.

We don't know where we're going, nor what the future holds.

When I got on the plane, i felt numb. I wanted to die...

...or fall asleep.

There are a lot of people who are at high risk

who are still in Afghanistan.

I know many examples, and they remain trapped.

Therefore, the situation continues to be disastrous.

Life in Afghanistan has changed many things for women.

It's a terrible feeling when we don't know our future.

I would have no idea of what my next year would be like

or my next day, in Afghanistan.

Our only option is to be strong

and we accept what the future will bring us.

124 THOUSAND PEOPLE WERE TAKEN DURING EVACUATION FROM KABUL,

THE BIGGEST IN HISTORY US CONTEMPORARY.

IN JULY 2022, A UN REPORT DISCOVERED THAT THE NEW TALIBAN GOVERNMENT

LIMITED ACCESS FOR WOMEN TO WORK AND EDUCATION,

AND KILLED, TORTURED OR ARRESTED HUNDREDS OF OLD ENEMIES.

Joana Martins Iyuno-SDI Group

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