KABUL, AFGHANISTAN --
A younger Afghan girl who escaped to Canada final summer season is desperately apprehensive for her relations who didn't make it in another country and are actually dwelling in hiding.
Rukhshana Ahmidi, 22, labored as an interpreter for a Canadian physician in Afghanistan and was capable of escape the nation on Aug. 15, the identical day a suicide bombing hit the airport in Kabul.
Amid the confusion and chaos on the airport, Ahmidibecame separated from her household and finally made it onto a flight, however with out an replace on the standing of her family members.
Ahmidi, who now lives outdoors Toronto, solely discovered after touchdown in Kuwait that her household didn't make it out of Afghanistan.
“I'm a lot apprehensive as each second it's attainable that they are going to [be] killed as a result of they modified the home thrice and reside in hiding locations,” she advised CTV Nationwide Information.
“They aren't allowed to go outdoors. It’s not humane for them.”
The identical day Ahmidi left Afghanistan, her brother Rostum Ahmidi was overwhelmed and arrested on the airport. A photograph of his accidents reveals massive pink contusions throughout his again.
“It was actually laborious for me: ‘What ought to I do? [I have] to watch out about myself, however I've to consider my brothers, my mother,’” she mentioned.
“I used to be in shock and confused.”
Again in Kabul, the Taliban destroyed Rostum’s music store, because the group has banned music within the nation. Ahmidi’s grandmother is in hiding and needed to destroy her previous police uniform, the place she rose the ranks to develop into a sergeant.
The whole household is feeling the stress and anxiousness of dwelling in concern of the Taliban.
“I’m very depressed,” Ahmidi’s mom Eidmah mentioned, translated to English. “I’m afraid the Taliban will come and arrest my son. I’m afraid they are going to kill us.”
Ahmidi mentioned she is continually awake at evening involved for her household’s well-being and is apprehensive that the household’s connection to music might make them an even bigger goal.
“I'm a lot apprehensive, even tonight when my mother referred to as on the center of evening,” she mentioned. “I assumed that one thing occurred to my aunt or one thing occurred to my brothers as a result of he was signing.”
“If it continues, I’m certain that they are going to kill them, as a result of they killed the cousin of my mom.”
Getting out of Afghanistan is extraordinarily troublesome, as refugees wait in line for hours and generally days for a visa that will get them to Iran and hopefully, from there, to Canada.
Canada has pledged to resettle 40,000 Afghan refugees in Canada, however has not offered a timeline for doing so. The federal government has introduced in 6,860 refugees whole by its immigration streams as of Jan. 12, in response to authorities knowledge.
Ahmidi mentioned she emailed Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada asking for assist along with her scenario, however has not heard again.
“I’m so grateful for the federal government of Canada that saved my life protected and I hope they assist my household to reunite us, and in addition they may be part of with me as a result of if I can't be part of with them, I’m certain that I can't proceed my life,” she mentioned.
“I must be with my household as a result of they want me. I used to be the one one which was supporting them and now there's not anybody to assist them.”
With recordsdata from CTV Nationwide Information reporter Heather Butts
Buildings are mirrored in water within the Chaman-e-Huzori park, downtown Kabul, on Friday, Dec. 10, 2021. (AP Photograph/ Petros Giannakouris)
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