Numerous people lost their lives in the attacks at Kabul airport.
One of them is YouTuber Najma Sadeqi.
Kabul - Two weeks ago, numerous people were killed in suicide attacks at Kabul Airport.
The world now knows the faces of the 13 US soldiers and their stories.
Less is known of the Afghan victims of the attack on an IS branch.
One of them who was killed while fleeing the Taliban was named Najma Sadeqi.
The 20-year-old was a YouTuber and studied journalism.
A few days before her death, she took one last video.
A farewell message after the militant Islamist Taliban regained power.
The video shows, among other things, the US broadcaster CNN. "Since we are not working and are not allowed to leave our homes, we all had to record a new video for you," said Sadeqi.
The young woman is dressed in a black chador.
"And with this video we say goodbye to you all and call on you to pray for us."
Afghanistan: YouTuber dies on the run from the Taliban - shortly before, she publishes touching video
In her video message, the YouTuber repeatedly fights back tears. CNN shows footage of previous YouTube clips of Sadeqi with two other young women. Laughing, in colorful clothes, on the streets of Kabul. Before the terror group takes the Afghan capital - and the Western powers evacuate those seeking protection, local staff and their citizens in hectic days under the gaze of the global community.
The 20-year-old reported on daily life in Kabul for the “Afghan Insider” YouTube channel, according to the US broadcaster.
About a life that shortly afterwards no longer existed.
In her video message, Sadeqi said she was afraid to take to the streets.
She, who can be seen laughing through Kabul in her videos.
“Life in Kabul has become very difficult, especially for those who were free and happy before.” The Taliban claimed that girls and women were allowed to go to school, university and work - “but we have heard about their past. “At 20 years of age, Sadeqi belongs to the generation who only knew the rule of the Taliban from stories in the 1990s.
Until recently.
Afghanistan: YouTuber dies in a suicide attack at Kabul airport
"Pray for us that we don't stray too far from our hopes and dreams," says Sadeqi tearfully in her farewell video.
“And that we can become the girls we were before.
That we can be happy again, the clothes we love.
Together with her brother and cousin, she was among the thousands of people who tried desperately to catch one of the evacuation flights.
They didn't make it.
The three died in the terrorist attack.
At the end of her message she says: “I wish it was just a bad dream, I wish we could wake up one day.
But I know that is not possible and it is a fact that we are finished. "
(Aka)
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More than 200 people died in the terrorist attacks at the airport in Kabul.
Including US soldier Nicole Gee, who took care of the rescue of women and children.
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