Afghanistan’s all-girls robotics staff, which made headlines lately for their inventions, is desperately making an attempt to flee the nation after the Taliban took management of the capital metropolis of Kabul over the weekend, based on a report from Canada’s CBC News.

“They’re worried about what tomorrow brings. They want to continue to be educated. They want to continue to be the future of Afghanistan. But it’s an extremely tenuous and dangerous situation for them,” human rights lawyer Kimberley Motley advised CBC on Sunday.

Motley defined that Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had been an “amazing supporter” of the ladies, and met with them in 2018. Motley would love Canada to get the ladies out of Afghanistan safely and presumably give them refugee standing, one thing the nation has promised 20,000 different susceptible Afghans.

The 20-member robotics staff, which incorporates women ranging in age from 12 to 18 years outdated, had been hailed in western media as the way forward for Afghanistan and a shining instance of how ladies’s rights within the nation had improved after the U.S. invasion. But the U.S. withdrawal has thrown the way forward for Afghanistan into doubt, because the Taliban took management of Kabul on Sunday with out firing a single shot.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani reportedly fled the nation and didn’t put up any sort of battle in opposition to the Taliban, a bunch recognized for taking ladies and women as intercourse slaves.

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“Unfortunately, what’s been happening to little girls over this last week is that the Taliban has been literally going from door to door and literally taking girls out and forcing them to become child brides. And we are very, very concerned of that happening with this Afghan girls robotics team—these girls that want to be engineers, they want to be in the AI community and they dare to dream to succeed,” Motley stated.

“And we are literally begging the Canadian government. We’re begging Prime Minister Trudeau, who has been an amazing supporter of the Afghan girls robotics team, to please allow them to come to Canada.”

Why Canada? The women visited the nation in 2018 and Motley believes it’s a spot the place these women could have a future.

“Well, Canada has just been extremely kind to the Afghan girls robotics team. And it’s really with the government supporting them, frankly, when they met Prime Minister Trudeau, that was a huge life changing experience for them. They came to Canada, they competed in Canada, and actually they won the competition and they won the Rookie Star Award when they came there, which was the highest honor that they could win in their category for a robotics competition,” Motley stated.

“And so they want to be educated. They want to be in a safe place. They want to make Afghanistan proud, and they want to make the world proud and to continue on with their robotics dreams, their A.I. dreams,” Motley continued. “And they believe that Canada would be an amazing place to continue to basically have a future.”

The scenes from Kabul airport in a single day had been horrendous to say the least. Footage circulating on social media purported to point out folks clinging to the engines of an American airplane in an try and flee the nation, whereas two different movies confirmed at the least two people falling from a plane to their deaths.

Other movies merely confirmed the chaos of individuals making an attempt to board planes on the airport, many reportedly with out tickets or passports.

The U.S. flew in troops to make sure the security of Americans fleeing the nation, however the scenario deteriorated shortly, with U.S. army personnel reportedly firing on a crowd and killing at least three people at Kabul’s airport in a single day.

The Wall Street Journal, which didn’t immediately implicate U.S. troops within the deaths of the three males, reviews that about 6,000 U.S. troops are on the bottom in Afghanistan:

U.S. Marines fired warning pictures late Sunday when tons of of Afghans who breached the perimeter rushed to board an idling C-17 transport plane, a Western army official stated.

According to folks trapped within the airport, American troops additionally repeatedly shot within the air to disperse the crowds throughout the night time. Hundreds of Afghan civilians had been seen near the runway and round parked planes on Monday morning, with some hanging from boarding ramps as they scrambled to get into the plane, hindering evacuation efforts.

The U.S. army used two army helicopters flying low overhead to attempt to disperse the crowds, utilizing smoke grenades and firing pictures into the air, passengers stated.

There had been roughly 6,000 American troops within the Kabul airport or headed there, U.S. army officers stated Sunday. More stay on standby in Kuwait.

Afghans had rushed to the airport after rumors circulated that flights had been taking passengers even with out passports and tickets.

It’s not instantly clear the place the ladies robotics staff is likely to be in the meanwhile, although unconfirmed reviews on Twitter declare a BBC journalist had seen the ladies at Kabul’s airport. If that’s true, we are able to solely hope they’re secure, one thing that’s not assured for anybody who opposes the Taliban’s excessive anti-woman interpretation of Islam.