On Monday’s edition of “Cuomo Primetime,” CNN’s Chris Cuomo interviewed a United States citizen who remains stranded in Afghanistan following the last American soldiers departed from the country.
The American citizen used the name “Sara” during the interview, and she’s a former interpreter for the U.S. military and is seeking to get several families out of Afghanistan.
“I just found out that they left, and I was just silent for a while. And I just went, walked around the rooms, and I saw the young kids are sleeping, and they have no clue what happened this morning, that the last flight is gone and we’re left behind,” Sara said to Cuomo.
“It’s heartbreaking. I just don’t even know what to say to you. Whoever was trying to help me and support me, even they did not tell me that… this was the last flight. So I still had hope that we would leave. If not all of them, at least some kids and some mothers who had disabled kids. I had hope for them.”
With the Taliban returning to power in Afghanistan, it puts women in critical danger. Until being deposed from power in 2001, the Taliban prohibited women from receiving an education and working.
Cuomo proceeded by asking what’s her biggest fear as she remains in the country. Sara followed by answering that she’s not only afraid for her life but those she’s helping.
“I went to so many different missions with military, so many different missions in different provinces,” Sara said. “I never had that heartbeat like I have it today, this morning when they told me the Americans left.”
“They left us to whom? To those people who were always wanting to kill us? And now I am by myself here with 37 people. This is my fear that if Americans could not help me when they were on the ground, how will they help me now when no one is here? That’s my question.”
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