Those who put their lives on the line in the Afghan National Army and can't find a way out of Afghanistan are working menial jobs, sometimes moving locations every few days in fear for their safety.
more than 400 cases of extrajudicial killings or detentions of former Afghan National Defense and Security Forces in the first six months of Taliban rule.
What's also clear is that setting up a system of governance after 20 years of war hasn't come easily for the new government. One former commando who asks not to be identified because he still fears for his own safety, and his family's, tells NPR he never lingers in any one location for more than a day, afraid he'll be tracked down and detained. He suspects this is what has happened to several others with whom he served but can no longer reach.
"I was paid by the old Afghan government and I don't have the HR letter I need to get the special immigrant visa," he says. "The requirements of the program are very rigid and Afghans have been killed while waiting for visas to be issued," says Adam Bates, supervisory policy counsel at the International Refugee Assistance Project, who notes his organization would not exist"if the SIV program functioned efficiently and if not for just the sheer amount of erroneous denials of people and documents being submitted.
"I will never join a force that's working against America," he says, acknowledging that others who have families to support may not be in a position to turn down the proposition.
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