{"id":39563,"date":"2021-12-07T09:01:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T00:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/07\/whistleblower-on-uks-afghan-evacuation-main-accusations"},"modified":"2021-12-07T09:01:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T00:01:12","slug":"whistleblower-on-uks-afghan-evacuation-main-accusations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39563","title":{"rendered":"Whistleblower on UK\u2019s Afghan evacuation: main accusations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Civil servants scrambling to save Afghans were \u2018appalled by our chaotic system\u2019 and animals were put above humans<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/dec\/07\/whistleblower-condemns-foreign-office-over-kabul-evacuation\">Whistleblower condemns Foreign Office over Kabul evacuation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/dec\/07\/fresh-questionsdominic-raab-role-afghan-rescue-debacle\">Fresh questions about Dominic Raab\u2019s role in debacle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/07\/how-an-afghan-reporter-was-left-to-the-taliban-by-the-foreign-office\">How Afghan reporter was left to the Taliban by Foreign Office<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Damning new light has been shed on the hour-by-hour decisions taken and frustrations encountered by a civil servant trying to help desperate Afghans flee the country in the days after the Taliban takeover.<\/p>\n<p>These are some of the key criticisms made by Raphael Marshall, a former desk officer at the Foreign Office.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/07\/whistleblower-on-uks-afghan-evacuation-main-accusations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil servants scrambling to save Afghans were \u2018appalled by our chaotic system\u2019 and animals were put above humansWhistleblower condemns Foreign Office over Kabul evacuationFresh questions about Dominic Raab\u2019s role in debacleHow Afghan reporter was left&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2107,"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":[46,531,1204,950,319,1879,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-boris-johnson","category-civil-service","category-dominic-raab","category-foreign-policy","category-foreign-commonwealth-and-development-office","category-politics","category-uk-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\/39563","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\/2107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39564,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39563\/revisions\/39564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}