Families of Canadian advisers in Taliban-run Afghanistan plea for help
The mother of six had no idea her Canadian brother was working so close by, just 10 or 15 kilometres away, until the“Your brother is working for foreigners and your life is at risk because your brother works with foreigners,” she recalls the insurgents telling her in that first frightening phone call.
The Canadian Press has agreed not to use Sam’s real name or reveal his sister’s identity because of the threat she still faces from the Taliban.The phone calls continued every four or five days for years. Sometimes the woman’s husband, a police officer, would pick up the phone. Even after the killing, the phone calls continued. Then threatening letters began to arrive at the house.0:51Fearing that her sons would suffer the same fate as their father, she fled to Turkey in 2018 with several of her children. They now face deportation back to Afghanistan.“If we are sent back to Afghanistan, of course they will kill us. There are so many threats waiting for us yet,” she said.
“I feel that the responsibility is on me because it happened because of me, you know, because of my involvement,” said Sam, who lives in Ottawa.
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