Chaos at the airport, relocated French Embassy, situation of women… Following the arrival of the Taliban in Kabul on Sunday, Monday was marked by strong images of the population trying to flee the regime, and changes that one can already observe in Afghanistan.
Here are a few.
Panic scenes at Kabul airport
These videos created a strong emotion on the networks. We can see Afghans clinging to planes taking off, in scenes of panic at Kabul airport. Hundreds of people swarmed the tarmac, hoping to find a seat on one of the planes leaving the country. Several aircraft left for Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, evacuating the last French nationals in particular. About 250 people were on the list of people to be evacuated on the French side, mostly Afghan personnel, and some are still waiting.
The chaos was such that all civil and military flights had to be suspended for about four hours on Monday.
Some eventually managed to board an American plane according to Marcus Weisgerber, journalist for the American media Defense One.
The image he posted on Twitter, which the Pentagon has not denied, shows 640 Afghans crammed into a US Air Force C-17 cargo plane.
Several climbed aboard at the last minute when the access ramp was only half open.
JUST IN: "The Crew made the decision to go" - Inside RCH 871, which saved 640 from the Taliban ... from @TaraCopp and me https://t.co/r4YvGqJZ4b pic.twitter.com/CI1mAmqjHT
- Marcus Weisgerber (@MarcusReports) August 16, 2021
Still at Kabul airport, a different kind of scene.
Faced with the deterioration of the security situation, the French Embassy in Afghanistan relocated to the airport, to help "in the evacuation of all of our compatriots who would still be in the country", developed the Minister of Foreign Affairs in a press release.
The French Embassy is relocated and at work @KabulAirport #Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/qmuNgb9Mbm
- David Martinon (@david_martinon) August 16, 2021
Concerns about the situation of Afghan women
While the situation of women and girls under the Taliban is worrying a lot, a montage has turned a lot on the networks. They are two side by side photos of Clarissa Ward, correspondent for the American channel CNN in Afghanistan. On the first, which many have associated with the “pretaliban” era, his face is revealed. On the second, taken from a duplex filmed Monday, we see her veiled, and wearing an abaya. "In 24 hours the CNN correspondent Clarissa Ward had to wear a veil to be able to exercise her profession in the streets of #Kaboul", deplored the deputy LR Eric Ciotti on Twitter.
Clarissa Ward herself wanted to provide more details on this assembly.
“This meme is incorrect.
The top photo is inside a private complex.
The bottom one is in the streets of Kabul held by the Taliban.
I always wore a headscarf on the streets in Kabul before, but not with my hair fully covered and the abaya.
So there is a difference, but not as obvious, ”she wrote on Twitter.
This meme is inaccurate.
The top photo is inside a private compound.
The bottom is on the streets of Taliban held Kabul.
I always wore a head scarf on the street in Kabul previously, though not w / hair fully covered and abbaya.
So there is a difference but not quite this stark.
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- Clarissa Ward (@clarissaward) August 16, 2021
"Afghan women have the right to live in freedom and dignity," Emmanuel Macron said Monday during his speech dedicated to the situation in Afghanistan.
When they ruled this country, between 1996 and 2001, the Taliban imposed their ultra-rigorous version of Islamic law.
Women could neither work nor study.
Wearing the burqa was compulsory in public and they could not leave their homes unless accompanied by a “mahram”, a male chaperone of their family.
Flogging and executions, including stoning for adultery, were carried out in town squares and in stadiums.
From Sunday, windows exhibiting women in dresses were covered in Kabul.
Kabul.
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- Lotfullah Najafizada (@LNajafizada) August 15, 2021