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[00:00.04]Afghans fearing punishment from the Taliban
[00:04.44]have attempted to stay out of sight
[00:07.88]since the militant group took control of the country.
[00:13.40]Those in hiding include employees of Afghanistan's
[00:18.72]collapsed government, civil activists and women.
[00:25.40]They distrust the group's promises not to take revenge on them.
[00:33.16]They are seeking a safe way to leave the country.
[00:38.32]The Taliban quickly took over major Afghan cities
[00:43.24]and the national government in recent weeks.
[00:48.40]Now, Taliban fighters have set up traffic stops
[00:53.04]throughout the capital, Kabul.
[00:56.60]The Associated Press (AP) reports the Taliban
[01:00.80]is stopping drivers to ask where they are going
[01:05.20]and to examine drivers' documents.
[01:10.08]There are also reports of Taliban fighters
[01:14.24]going door-to-door in search
[01:17.12]of former government workers and civil activists.
[01:22.92]Such reports, however, have not been confirmed.
[01:27.52]The AP reported there have been no signs
[01:31.72]of widespread house-to-house searches.
[01:36.88]One Afghan in hiding who spoke to the AP
[01:41.40]is a 39-year-old reporter named Mobina.
[01:47.32]She told the news agency that she fled from the city
[01:52.48]of Mazar-e-Sharif with her two children
[01:56.48]after the Taliban took over the area.
[02:00.48]She is now staying in a safe house in Kabul.
[02:05.28]'We are asking ourselves 'What is next?'
[02:08.92]We are crying because nothing can be fixed,' Mobina said.
[02:14.96]Also in Kabul, 26-year-old Mumtaz
[02:19.52]is with his family inside their apartment.
[02:24.12]His father worked for the Afghan government
[02:27.88]and his brother was killed in an attack in 2010 in Laghman province,
[02:35.24]where the Taliban has long been active.
[02:38.60]The family went to Kabul's airport
[02:43.04]after the Taliban entered the city on August 15.
[02:48.12]But they found huge crowds, a lack of organization and gunfire.
[02:55.96]The family decided to return home
[02:59.24]and has not left the apartment since.
[03:03.60]Their worry grew after a neighbor warned them
[03:07.32]that a group of armed men were looking for them.
[03:11.76]'We can't go out. We just ask our neighbor to bring us food...
[03:16.96]We are really scared,' said Mumtaz, who recently completed law school.
[03:24.36]Mobina and Mumtaz only wanted to be identified
[03:29.60]by their first names because of fears
[03:33.12]that they could be punished for speaking out.
[03:37.48]Both said they had not received any direct threats
[03:42.08]from the Taliban so far.
[03:45.72]Mobina said she is in hiding with 25 other people.
[03:51.72]The others include heads of civil society groups,
[03:56.04]women's rights defenders and leaders of development projects.
[04:03.32]They say they have heard that Taliban fighters
[04:07.32]are out on the streets, stopping women
[04:10.64]and asking them where their male escort is.
[04:15.76]Under the Taliban's past rule,
[04:18.88]women were required to have such an escort.
[04:23.72]Some say it is in the interest of the Taliban
[04:27.80]not to return to the brutality shown
[04:31.72]during their rule from 1996 to 2001.
[04:38.00]In those years, they barred girls and women from schools
[04:43.20]and banned them from public life.
[04:47.32]The group also ordered extreme punishments
[04:51.48]and public executions.
[04:54.80]Today, the Taliban will depend on
[04:57.84]foreign donor assistance to run the country.
[05:02.08]Some experts say this may be a reason for the group
[05:07.36]to carry out a more moderate rule.
[05:11.48]Evacuations out of the country are being organized
[05:15.92]by national embassies seeking to help their own citizens
[05:21.08]and the Afghans who worked directly with them.
[05:26.08]Thousands of other at-risk Afghans
[05:29.52]are not included in these groups.
[05:32.68]Even those who do get approved for evacuation
[05:37.72]face huge crowds at the airport.
[05:41.28]Taliban fighters control which travelers get in.
[05:46.36]Many others struggle just to reach the airport.
[05:51.64]I'm Bryan Lynn.
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Words in This Story
revenge – n. something you do to punish someone who has done something bad to you
apartment –n. a usually rented room or set of rooms that is part of a building and is used as a place to live
province – n. any one of the large parts that some countries are divided into
escort – n. a person responsible for going somewhere with someone else to guard or protect them
brutal – adj. very violent or cruel
evacuation – n. to move people from a dangerous place to somewhere safer