Scenes at Kabul airport are ‘just horrific’ and ’should have been avoided’

The scenes of people fleeing the Taliban to the Kabul airport are “just horrific” and “should have been avoided”, according to Amnesty International Australia Refugee Adviser Dr Graham Thom. “It’s absolutely terrifying … you just cannot imagine it,” he told Sky News Australia. “I think that description of how people are trying to get to the airport and what’s facing them when they get there, imagine fleeing the Taliban, getting to the airport and there are Taliban gunmen right there, beating you back with sticks.