THREAD - The incredible situation Afghan U.N. staff now find themselves in, in Kabul.
Told to turn up to work and stay positive, with no options for sanctuary in UN compounds, and no support to evacuate. 1/
2/ Taliban reprisals have begun against local staff - foreign senior staff have cleared out
3/ UN staff from 10 countries are demanding @antonioguterres use his exclusive power to order and assist in evacuating UN’s Afghan staff
4/ official U.N. advice 👀👀👀, which has left some staff feeling they’ve been left to die
5/ At least 3,000 working for the U.N. Afghanistan mission - but also thousands more working for UN agencies are stuck. But foreign staff sometimes received Taliban escorts to the airport to escape
6/ You might think then that UN would let remaining staff shelter in its compounds, or use air assets to get them to airport … you’d be wrong
7/ They don’t even a letter helping them get a special visa.
8/ read all about it in today’s Global Translations newsletter politico.com/newsletters/gl… and in this story politico.com/news/2021/08/2…
9/ correction on the helicopter point: the UN failed to move their helicopters back to their main compound before they were damaged by looters, thus eliminating the helicopters as an evacuation asset
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