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Hi. Hi, my name is Alash Talamzai, and I am the author of I Pleaded for Help, No One Wrote Back, The Pain of Watching My Country Fall to the Taliban, which was published in 2021.

In summer of 2021, they were ramblings that the Taliban were close to Kabul and were potentially going to take it over. But no one really expected them to take the whole country or to come into Kabul

without any resistance. And I, much like many other Afghans around the world, woke up on

the morning of August 15th, 2021 with news that the Taliban were entering the city and that the Afghan government,

the elected president was going to fall. And essentially that the state was going to fall completely.

And so the article is an account of those few weeks where people like myself were closely

involved in evacuations of Afghans from Kabul.

And I wrote the article to convey the tragic and heartbreaking experience of Afghans

who working on evacuation and at the same time

dealing with the fact that the country was going back to an autocratic regime

that was going to roll back every bit of progress that was made in human rights and civil

rights, particularly roll back the rights of women in Afghanistan.

And so we were working on the evacuations and contending with a very, very dark future.

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