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Whistleblower: As Afghanistan fell, UK abandoned supporters
Updated On: 08 December, 2021 08:48 AM IST | London | Agencies
In devastating evidence to a parliamentary committee, Raphael Marshall said thousands of pleas for help via email were unread between Aug 21 and Aug 25
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Dominic Raab
Britain’s Foreign Office abandoned many of the nation’s allies in Afghanistan and left them to the mercy of the Taliban during the fall of Kabul, because of a dysfunctional and arbitrary evacuation effort, a whistleblower alleged Tuesday.
In devastating evidence to a parliamentary committee, Raphael Marshall said thousands of pleas for help via email were unread between Aug 21 and Aug 25. The ex -Foreign Office employee estimated that only 5 per cent of Afghan nationals under one UK programme received help. “There were usually over 5,000 unread emails in the inbox at any given moment, including many unread emails dating from early August,” he wrote to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.
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