[News] New Leaked Details of UK's "Chaotic and Dysfunctional" Evacuation of Afghanistan

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Dysfunctional and chaotic. This is how a former British official described the handling of the evacuation from Afghanistan after the arrival of the Taliban in the capital, carried out by the UK Foreign Ministry.

Raphael Marshall said that the process of choosing who could go on a flight was arbitrary and that thousands of emails from people asking for help were not read.

He also claimed that the then British Chancellor, Dominic Raab, was slow to make decisions.

In the two weeks after the Taliban took over Kabul, around 15,000 people were evacuated from Afghanistan by the British government.

That group included 5,000 British citizens, 8,000 Afghans and 2,000 children.

 

In a statement written as evidence and issued to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Marshall revealed that up to 150,000 Afghans who were in danger due to their ties to the UK requested to be evacuated, but less than 5% received aid.

"It is clear that some of those left behind have been killed by the Taliban," he added.

Marshall, who worked as an official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs until his resignation in September, pointed out that the agency's crisis center was not adequately staffed and that there was also a lack of experience and coordination between his office and the Ministry. defense.

Marshall also said that the British chancellor took hours to respond to emails and "did not fully understand the situation."

 

 

He also said Prime Minister Boris Johnson's order to evacuate the dogs of a charity went against the criteria of the Foreign Ministry and left many people at risk of being killed behind.

 

LINK: https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-internacional-59564067