{"id":35973,"date":"2021-08-27T10:45:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T01:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/27\/total-betrayal-afghan-interpreters-shocked-as-new-zealand-ends-kabul-evacuation"},"modified":"2021-08-27T12:40:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T03:40:09","slug":"total-betrayal-afghan-interpreters-shocked-as-new-zealand-ends-kabul-evacuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35973","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Total betrayal\u2019: Afghan interpreters shocked as New Zealand ends Kabul evacuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of almost 40 interpreters and others who worked with the NZDF are still trapped in Afghanistan<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/27\/afghanistan-taliban-live-news-kabul-airport-attack-bomb-explosion-civilians-us-marines-killed-abbey-gate-is-islamic-state-biden-vows-revenge-latest-updates\">Kabul airport attack: latest news<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Afghan interpreters left behind after New Zealand ceased its mercy flights are shocked and terrified at being stranded, saying it is a \u201ctotal betrayal\u201d by the New Zealand government.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian spoke to an Afghan interpreter, Ali* who was approved for a resettlement visa in New Zealand due to fears of reprisal from the Taliban for assisting allied forces. He remains in Kabul, and is in contact with a group of 37 other translators, interpreters and other people who assisted New Zealand forces in Afghanistan. He says none of them have been evacuated.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/27\/total-betrayal-afghan-interpreters-shocked-as-new-zealand-ends-kabul-evacuation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of almost 40 interpreters and others who worked with the NZDF are still trapped in AfghanistanKabul airport attack: latest newsAfghan interpreters left behind after New Zealand ceased its mercy flights are shocked and terrified at being strande&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2134,"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":[46,41,56,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/35973","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\/2134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36004,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35973\/revisions\/36004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}