Afghanistan six months on from the Taliban takeover – photo essay
Adrenaline August may have been obsolete but a terrible memory does not fade. It has been six months since the Taliban took Kabul, then the president of the State and his cabinet fled and thousands of people flooded the airport panicked, so desperate because some men tried to hold on to the plane who departed and fell into their deaths. .
It was injured by four decades of war, the change in the Afghan regime had left a sign that would take a long time to be processed. When the Taliban slowly put their government in place, many Afghans felt lost and confused. With uncertain future, some see a little alternative but to find new life abroad, add more than 5 million diaspores throughout the world.
Some of them decided to stay, or who did not have the choice to leave, said they had to give the Taliban opportunity, even though the group had not been internationally recognized. However there is no big enough opposition, and Taliban fighters have been placed even in the most remote valleys of Panjshir, where the last resistance battle is played.
We will continue to struggle if we have to, we are not tired,” said Ziaul Rahman, a 21-year-old Talib who was placed in the province of Logar Afghanistan. Resistance fighters, both in Panjshir or in the province of Jowzjan dominated by Uzbek, say the same thing.
For the past three and a half years and worked as a journalist here, I have visited most of the country province. Since the Taliban takeover, I managed to return to many of them again, learn more about how people in all of the countries 40 million consider their new rulers.
The Taliban has accommodated foreign journalists, a privilege that has not been given to all Afghan journalists. Some have been tortured, beaten, detained and intimidated and since then left the country or tried to get out.
To summarize – or even generalize about – diverse places such as Afghanistan, of course, impossible
Dinge Data: Last week Joe Biden announced that $ 3.5bn from frozen Afghan funds – including ordinary Afghanistan personal savings – will be distributed to the 9/11 victims, although not an Afghanistan involved in the attack.
