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Those are glimpses of what life has become in Afghanistan under the Taliban.
They come from messages sent to Rural Australians for Refugees which is lobbying for increased help from the federal government to assist those seeking visas to escape the horror.
A man wrote: "You can't have a shave, you can't listen to music when you go out, wearing pants and jeans is not recommended at all, because there is a high risk that the Taliban will stop you and question your outfit."
A woman posted of a school stopping education for girls at grade six and couples relayed how inflation had seen grocery prices double in weeks.
A man told of families having to cook meals for the Taliban and seeing the corpses of two men and a woman.
"They had been killed by the Taliban and their bodies dumped in the city," he wrote.
"The Taliban were saying "we got the kidnappers, we got the thieves".
"I still can't get the image of them out of my head."
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Rural Australians for Refugees past national president Marie Sellstrom will meet Indi MP Helen Haines on Monday to seek her support for Australia to provide more help.
She wants Canberra to lift its Afghan refugee cap from 3000 to 20,000 and be more flexible in visa processes.
"My understanding is if they've got a visa they can get over into Pakistan, that's why we're so anxious for them to get a visa, so they could get on a commercial airliner once flights start going again," Ms Sellstrom said.
Eleven in the Indi branch of Rural Australians for Refugees are sponsoring visa applications.
"Getting them out of there on humanitarian visas is really difficult, we're getting no information from the immigration department, it's like sending something into a black hole," Ms Sellstrom said.
She said some people were hiding in caves and she was trying to assist two lawyers who had stood up for women's rights.
"We feel quite powerless, we don't know what to say to them, all we can say is 'keep safe'," Ms Sellstrom said.
She knows some in Australia via the Kabul airlift.
"A lot of them don't want to talk about the situation they left, they're very depressed about that," she said.
"All they want to say is how happy they are to be in Australia."
