CLAVIERE, Italy (dpa) – When suicide bombers and gunmen massacred crowds pouring into Kabul airport, they also separated the escape route that Ali Rezaie hoped would lead him to a new life abroad, far away from the Taliban and their suspicions of well-educated, middle-class people who have worked with foreigners in Afghanistan.
In the chaos, Rezaie could not reach the airport without him, from which one flight after the other took off. The 27-year-old had no choice but to take his future into single hands himself. Like many other Afghans, he decided to find another way out and embarked on a daunting journey of thousands of kilometers to Europe, much of it on foot.
