{"id":35588,"date":"2021-08-19T21:15:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T12:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/aug\/19\/my-escape-from-afghanistan-on-a-us-military-plane-it-was-total-chaos-video"},"modified":"2021-08-19T21:15:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T12:15:26","slug":"my-escape-from-afghanistan-on-a-us-military-plane-it-was-total-chaos-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35588","title":{"rendered":"My escape from Afghanistan on a US military plane: &#8216;It was total chaos&#8217; \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of people on the runway, women and children screaming, and gunshots lighting up the sky: Afghan journalist Ramin Rahman spoke to the Guardian about his chaotic escape from Hamid Karzai international airport the day the Taliban took Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>Rahman, 27, left Kabul fearing for his life. As &#8216;a progressive, outspoken journalist with tattoos&#8217; \u2013 he is basically the antithesis of what the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/taliban\">Taliban<\/a>&nbsp;stand for.<\/p>\n<p>He described several hours of uncertainty and panic, running with hundreds of others towards US aircraft, and the agonising wait before the plane took off from Afghanistan<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/18\/afghanistan-kabul-airport-escape-journalist\">\u2018We kept on hearing gunshots\u2019: my chaotic escape from Kabul\u2019s airport<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/aug\/19\/my-escape-from-afghanistan-on-a-us-military-plane-it-was-total-chaos-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of people on the runway, women and children screaming, and gunshots lighting up the sky: Afghan journalist Ramin Rahman spoke to the Guardian about his chaotic escape from Hamid Karzai international airport the day the Taliban took Kabul.Rahma&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2434,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2434"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35589,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35588\/revisions\/35589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}