© Reuters. Afghan nationwide girls’s wheelchair basketball crew captain Nilofar Bayat drinks a espresso in Bilbao, Spain, August 22, 2021. REUTERS/Vincent West
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By Elena Rodriguez and Marco Trujillo
BILBAO, Spain (Reuters) – As she began a brand new life in Spain after escaping the chaos of Kabul, Nilofar Bayat stated on Sunday she couldn’t stay below the Taliban, who she fears will reverse all of the achievements Afghanistan has revamped the previous 20 years.
The captain of the Afghan girls’s wheelchair basketball crew arrived in Madrid on Friday on a flight from Kabul together with her husband Ramesh Naik Zai, 27, and over 100 different refugees.
“I noticed at (Kabul) airport how harmful (the Taliban) are. I noticed them taking pictures and beating. I used to be crying. My husband instructed me be sturdy, I’ll by no means go away you alone,” Bayat, 28, instructed Reuters.
“Once I noticed the Taliban I instructed (my husband) I need to go away this nation as a result of I can not stay with these folks.”
Bayat was supplied an opportunity to play for Bidaideak Bilbao BSR, a basketball crew for wheelchair customers within the northern Spanish metropolis of Bilbao, the place the couple will stay.
When she was two years previous, her household’s home in Kabul was hit by a rocket, injuring her spinal twine. Her brother was killed. Bayat’s husband was additionally injured by a mine.
“They (the Taliban) got here and altered my life and (my husband’s) life. They put an unstoppable ache in our lives. A everlasting incapacity that we now have to just accept.”
Bayat, who was given a spot on the aircraft out of Kabul due to efforts by the Spanish authorities and the Spanish Basketball Federation, fears for the way forward for Afghanistan below the Taliban.
“They may destroy all the needs and achievements of the previous 20 years,” Bayat stated.
She stated she feared that the position of girls will probably be diminished below the Taliban.
“Being a lady within the Taliban regime means nothing, you aren’t a part of the society.”
As she started her new life, she stated of her compatriots in Afghanistan: “We pray for them to be secure. Please do not surrender.”
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