{"id":36983,"date":"2021-09-18T09:25:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T00:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/18\/living-in-terror-afghans-left-behind-by-new-zealand-struggling-to-survive"},"modified":"2021-09-18T09:25:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T00:25:05","slug":"living-in-terror-afghans-left-behind-by-new-zealand-struggling-to-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36983","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Living in terror\u2019: Afghans left behind by New Zealand struggling to survive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds who worked for New Zealand military remain stranded in Afghanistan, destitute and fearing Taliban reprisals<\/p>\n<p>Desperate and running low on food, Afghans who worked for New Zealand wonder if help is coming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe situation here is chaos,\u201d says Sayed*, an Afghan interpreter who worked for the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF). \u201cPeople are scared, and all the banks are closed, people in desperate situations, running out of money. Food and other things are getting expensive. How do you describe it \u2013 it\u2019s so dark. People are in so dire a situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/18\/living-in-terror-afghans-left-behind-by-new-zealand-struggling-to-survive\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds who worked for New Zealand military remain stranded in Afghanistan, destitute and fearing Taliban reprisalsDesperate and running low on food, Afghans who worked for New Zealand wonder if help is coming.\u201cThe situation here is chaos,\u201d says Sayed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2188,"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":[46,41,56,61,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36983","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\/2188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36984,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36983\/revisions\/36984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}