{"id":36379,"date":"2021-09-03T21:08:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T12:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/sep\/03\/monsters-at-the-door-migrant-workers-trapped-in-un-afghan-compound"},"modified":"2021-09-03T21:08:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T12:08:39","slug":"monsters-at-the-door-migrant-workers-trapped-in-un-afghan-compound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36379","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Monsters at the door\u2019: migrant workers trapped in UN Afghan compound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security contractors among hundreds from the Philippines, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka stuck without clear plans for evacuation<\/p>\n<p>When Taliban fighters started to kick at the door of a UN compound in a northern province 250 miles (400km) from the Afghan capital, Kabul, Rajesh* was certain he was going to be killed.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban had taken control of the area on that day. Rajesh, a UN security contractor from India, hurried with his colleagues into an emergency steel-doored room. Before they sealed themselves in, they saw a group of seven or eight heavily armed men.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/sep\/03\/monsters-at-the-door-migrant-workers-trapped-in-un-afghan-compound\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security contractors among hundreds from the Philippines, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka stuck without clear plans for evacuationWhen Taliban fighters started to kick at the door of a UN compound in a northern province 250 miles (400km) from the Afghan ca&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":986,"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":[46,41,59,62,241,55,61,674,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-asia-pacific","category-global-development","category-india","category-nepal","category-philippines","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-taliban","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\/36379","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\/986"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36380,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36379\/revisions\/36380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}