Former British sailor Paul “Pen” Farthing, founder of a wildlife sanctuary in Afghanistan that evacuated Kabul with 173 cats and cats, has revealed that the Taliban fatally stabbed one of his dogs.
Farthing, 52, the charter flight he landed in London on Sunday, told the Daily Mail that five cats died during the trip, and that one of his dogs was stabbed to death while driving through Taliban checkpoints. to Kabul Airport.
“I think I cried more in the last five or six days than since I was 4 years old. I’m asleep with that, ”he told the dam.
Farthing also reported that he received a heartbreaking text when he arrived at the airport with his animals.
“It was from my colleague Dave, who ran a security company in Kabul. He literally came out two hours before me, but he kept his enclosure and left his two dogs with the staff, ”he told the dam.
“He sent a text message:” The bastards have just shot Brutus. They walked around the compound, saw the dogs, dragged them into the open air and shot them, “added Farthing, who evacuated the war-torn capital last week after the British army helped him climb. on the private plane.
The animal rescuer’s flight came after previous plans to evacuate with staff from his charity Nowzad and the animals were thwarted by the suicide bombing outside the airport.
Farthing later flew to Norway to be reunited with his wife, Kaisa, 30, who fled Afghanistan two weeks ago, according to the report.
“The Afghan people were there with all their belongings in line. There was a guy who didn’t like paperwork, so they said, “Come on, get out,” with an AK rifle on his back. I only saw this boy trying to shake his wife and children as they dragged him at gunpoint, ”he said.
“I think it will take a long time to get out of my head having to say goodbye to the two staff members who drove the truck to take me to the airport on crowded roads,” Farthing continued.
“There were thousands and thousands of them in makeshift camps waiting their turn to try to get into the airport – women, children … And you should have seen the human misery in that hangar – the possessions that people had left back – photographs, hats, children’s toys, “he told the dam.
“I was sitting between all this when someone tweeted about my bastard [to Defense Minister Ben Wallace’s special adviser Peter Quentin]Said Farthing.
Farthing was reportedly told Quentin that he would “destroy you” for managing the UK’s evacuation of Kabul.
“I do not even remember getting it. I totally forgot about it until someone sent me a tweet saying, “Pen Farthing’s explosive blast …” I thought, “What the hell are they going through?” He said.
“It simply came to our notice then. We needed paperwork so that our staff and their families could go to the airport. Peter Quentin had told me six days before the staff had been approved to leave the country, but for whatever reason they would not give me the paperwork, ”Farthing continued.
“You can imagine that the window between where we were and when the Americans were coming out was getting smaller and smaller, I was quite stressed,” he said, adding that he apologized for the language he used.