Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab, the erstwhile Foreign Secretary, arrives up of the government's play Cabinet gathering successful Downing Street, successful London, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. Britains Foreign Office abandoned galore of the nations allies successful Afghanistan and near them to the mercy of the Taliban during the autumn of the capital, Kabul, due to the fact that of a dysfunctional and arbitrary evacuation effort, whistleblower Raphael Marshall alleged Tuesday. (Aaron Chown/PA via AP)

LONDON – Britain’s Foreign Office abandoned galore of the nation’s allies successful Afghanistan and near them to the mercy of the Taliban during the autumn of the capital, Kabul, due to the fact that of a dysfunctional and arbitrary evacuation effort, a whistleblower alleged Tuesday.

In devastating grounds to a parliamentary committee, Raphael Marshall said thousands of pleas for assistance via email were unread betwixt Aug. 21 and Aug. 25. The erstwhile Foreign Office worker estimated that lone 5% of Afghan nationals who applied to fly nether 1 U.K. programme received help. At 1 point, helium was the lone idiosyncratic monitoring the inbox.

“There were usually implicit 5,000 unread emails successful the inbox astatine immoderate fixed moment, including galore unread emails dating from aboriginal successful August," helium wrote to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee. “These emails were hopeless and urgent. I was struck by galore titles including phrases specified arsenic ‘please prevention my children’."

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Former Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who was moved from the Foreign Office to go Justice Secretary aft his handling of the crisis, defended his actions.

“Some of the disapproval seems alternatively dislocated from the facts connected the ground, the operational pressures that with the takeover of the Taliban, unexpected astir the world..." helium told the BBC. “I bash deliberation that not capable designation has been fixed to rather however hard it was.”

The Taliban stormed crossed Afghanistan successful precocious summer, capturing each large cities successful a substance of days, arsenic Afghan information forces trained and equipped by the U.S. and its allies melted away. The Taliban took implicit Kabul connected Aug. 15.

Many who had worked for Western powers oregon the authorities disquieted that the state could descend into chaos oregon the Taliban could transportation retired revenge attacks against them.

Many besides feared the Taliban would reimpose the harsh mentation of Islamic instrumentality that they relied connected erstwhile they ran Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. At the time, women had to deterioration the all-encompassing burqa and beryllium accompanied by a antheral comparative whenever they went outside. The Taliban banned music, chopped disconnected the hands of thieves and stoned adulterers.

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