{"id":56377,"date":"2023-07-02T18:00:39","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T09:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/02\/ive-never-seen-desperation-like-it-uk-soldiers-relive-the-terror-of-leaving-kabul"},"modified":"2023-07-02T18:00:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T09:00:39","slug":"ive-never-seen-desperation-like-it-uk-soldiers-relive-the-terror-of-leaving-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56377","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019ve never seen desperation like it\u2019: UK soldiers relive the terror of leaving Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Military personnel speak frankly of the chaotic, terrifying evacuation, in moving new documentary series from Channel 4<\/p>\n<p>Just occasionally a documentary series makes you stop and rethink what you know of the world. <em>Evacuation<\/em>, three unforgettable films about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/26\/uk-warns-afghans-to-avoid-kabul-airport-due-to-terrorist-attack-threat\" title=\"\">chaotic airlift<\/a> of British citizens and troops from Afghanistan as the Taliban re-entered Kabul in August 2021, is one such series.<\/p>\n<p>The films, which will be shown on consecutive nights on Channel 4 starting on Sunday evening, do not tell the story we think we know \u2013 the fatal strategic miscalculations of government ministers asleep at the wheel. They instead present an eyewitness account of that horrific fortnight at Kabul airport.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/02\/ive-never-seen-desperation-like-it-uk-soldiers-relive-the-terror-of-leaving-kabul\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military personnel speak frankly of the chaotic, terrifying evacuation, in moving new documentary series from Channel 4Just occasionally a documentary series makes you stop and rethink what you know of the world. Evacuation, three unforgettable films a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2715,"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":[46,1752,71,1580,1582,938,61,520,519,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-channel-4","category-culture","category-documentary","category-factual-tv","category-military","category-south-and-central-asia","category-television","category-television-radio","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\/56377","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\/2715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56378,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56377\/revisions\/56378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}