{"id":36962,"date":"2021-09-17T14:00:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T05:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/sep\/17\/they-left-us-to-die-uk-afghan-aid-staff-hiding-from-taliban"},"modified":"2021-09-17T14:00:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T05:00:37","slug":"they-left-us-to-die-uks-afghan-aid-staff-in-hiding-from-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36962","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They left us to die\u2019: UK\u2019s Afghan aid staff in hiding from Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evacuation of employees, not contractors, \u2018splitting hairs\u2019, says HRW, warning of days left to save lives<\/p>\n<p>Afghan employees who worked as contractors on UK aid projects fear for their lives after not being granted resettlement in Britain.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian has been in contact with four families who said they had been targeted by the Taliban because they worked for the UK government, and have now been forced into hiding.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/sep\/17\/they-left-us-to-die-uk-afghan-aid-staff-hiding-from-taliban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evacuation of employees, not contractors, \u2018splitting hairs\u2019, says HRW, warning of days left to save livesAfghan employees who worked as contractors on UK aid projects fear for their lives after not being granted resettlement in Britain.The Guardian has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2578,"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":[46,247,319,59,717,2290,4,494,79,61,44,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-aid","category-foreign-policy","category-global-development","category-immigration-and-asylum","category-ministry-of-defence","category-politics","category-refugees","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-uk-news","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\/36962","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\/2578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36963,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36962\/revisions\/36963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}