Lida Ansari from Dachau has not heard from her sister in Afghanistan for days.
Dachau
- Lida Ansari from Dachau continues to fear for the life of her sister, who is still in Kabul.
The former government employee and prosecutor was on the list of particularly vulnerable people and was supposed to be rescued on Sunday with one of the last evacuation flights of the Italian army from the capital of Afghanistan.
The situation is worsening dramatically
Lida Ansari has not heard from her sister since Sunday. As reported, the 48-year-old sister of the Dachau woman is in mortal danger because of her gender, but also because of her previous job, which also included putting the Taliban in prison. Although the lawyer was on the list of the German Foreign Office, she was not taken on any of the Bundeswehr rescue flights to Germany. Due to the contacts between Mayor Florian Hartmann and Dachau's twin town Fondi, it looked on Sunday evening as if the 48-year-old could fly to Rome with the Americans. "We filled out all the papers, the Foreign Office in Rome sent them to the Americans," reports Lida Ansari. Her sister made her way to the airport with her family.But then the Americans shut down the airport in Kabul and no longer allowed civilians in - in response to the attack a few days earlier. On Monday night, the US withdrew its last soldiers from the airport in Kabul.
Lida and her sister lost contact
Since then, contact between Lida Ansari and her sister has been severed.
"I try to find out where she is through friends," says the woman from Dachau, who hopes for a sign of life from her 48-year-old sister, her husband, four children, daughter-in-law and one-year-old grandchild (we have reported).
"I wonder how they look after themselves, where do they get something to eat from, how do they make ends meet financially?"
In the end the family had hidden somewhere else every night, in cellars.
Lida Ansari is certain that the Taliban will kill her sister if they discover her because she worked as a prosecutor for the deposed government, campaigned for women's rights and for the education of girls.
Her hope now is that her sister can flee overland from the Taliban, which is considered very dangerous - or that politics will find ways to get people left behind out of Afghanistan.
Lida Ansari has already received a lot of support, not just from politicians and members of parliament.
“Lots of people got in touch and stood up, for which I am very grateful.
I'll stick with it and keep trying to reach my sister, friends and acquaintances.
I do not give up!"
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