{"id":35728,"date":"2021-08-23T02:36:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T17:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/22\/afghans-guarded-british-embassy-g4s-gardaworld-fear-being-killed-by-taliban"},"modified":"2021-08-23T02:36:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T17:36:33","slug":"afghans-who-guarded-british-embassy-fear-being-killed-by-the-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35728","title":{"rendered":"Afghans who guarded British embassy fear being killed by the Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employees of private companies G4S and GardaWorld say they were rejected for UK relocation programme<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of Afghans employed by G4S to guard the British embassy until last year fear they will be killed by the Taliban after being abandoned by the British, while their successors who were promised help last week have since only received redundancy notices.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmad (not his real name), a former close protection officer and interpreter at the British embassy, made a desperate plea to the prime minister. \u201cIf I could get a message to Boris Johnson I would shout at him for help \u2013 if he doesn\u2019t help us we will be killed,\u201d he said by phone from Kabul.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/22\/afghans-guarded-british-embassy-g4s-gardaworld-fear-being-killed-by-taliban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employees of private companies G4S and GardaWorld say they were rejected for UK relocation programmeHundreds of Afghans employed by G4S to guard the British embassy until last year fear they will be killed by the Taliban after being abandoned by the Br&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2452,"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":[46,319,1849,4,61,44,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-foreign-policy","category-g4s","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35728","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\/2452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35729,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35728\/revisions\/35729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}