A desperate rescue mission is urgently being planned to rescue trapped and terrified Australian diplomats, journalists, aid workers and contractors, as Taliban fighters lays siege to the city of Kabul.
Hazara man Namatullah Kadrie was only five years old when his family fled Afghanistan.
Twenty years have since passed, but he’s now more worried than ever about those they left behind given western forces are about to fully withdraw from the country.
“We can’t do anything, but we re worried sick about what will happen to them,” he told SBS News at his home in Melbourne.
“I m very worried about what will happen to the Hazaras when the foreign forces completely leave Afghanistan. I think what we ll see is a full-scale war against the Hazaras.”
Namatullah Kadrie and his family in the late 1990s before they fled Afghanistan.