Posted by warvictims on July 23, 2009
BBC
By CHRISTIAN FRASER
Four-year-old Samar Abed Rabbu lost her two sisters during Israel’s offensive in Gaza last December and January.
The BBC’s Christian Fraser has been following the plight of Samar and her family – now divided across two continents, as Samar receives treatment in Belgium with her mother.
Throughout these months of gruelling therapy Belgian doctors say Samar Abed Rabbu has demonstrated remarkable courage.
She is desperate to walk again – she even simulates it on the bed with her fingers – but there is nothing the Belgian doctors can do to repair Samar’s broken back.
“She has had two operations so far,” said physiotherapist Pierre Van Lierde. “One in Gaza and one here in Brussels. But the bullets are lodged too deeply. It’s too dangerous to remove them and at least one of them is embedded in her spinal cord.” Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Actors, Blogroll, Civilian Casualties, Country, Government, Gunfire, Israel, Middle-East, Military, Palestine, Region, Tactics, Type of Harm | Tagged: gaza, IDF, Israel, Jabaliya, Palestine, Sama Abed Rabbu | Leave a Comment »
Posted by warvictims on July 23, 2009
KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan — Canadian troops accidentally shot and killed a young Afghan girl at dusk on Tuesday, a spokesman for Task Force Afghanistan confirmed Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Actors, Afghanistan, Bomb, Central Asia, Civilian Casualties, Country, Crossfire Deaths, Fact Finding, Government, Gunfire, ISAF, Insurgents, Military, NATO/Allies, Other, Police, Region, Tactics, Taliban, Type of Harm | Tagged: Afghanistan, Canadian troops, Civilian Casualties, civilian deaths, counterinsurgency, insurgency, Insurgents, ISAF, Kandahar City, militants, NATO forces, Panjwaii District, Taliban | Leave a Comment »
Posted by warvictims on July 23, 2009
22 Jul 2009 14:37:47 GMT
By Hamid Shalizi KABUL, July 22 (Reuters) -
Almost 30 years of conflict have forced millions of Afghan children to go without education and work to help feed their families, U.N. and Afghan government figures released on Wednesday showed.
Of Afghanistan’s 8.4 million children — more than a third of the population of 28 million — 1.2 million are the main breadwinners for their families and many more supplement family incomes, according to a survey conducted by the Afghan government, UNICEF and the independent Afghanistan Research And Evaluation Unit (AREU) from 2008 to 2009.
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Posted in Actors, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Country, NGOs, Region, Taliban, United Nations | Tagged: UN, Afghanistan, Taliban, children, Kabul, UNICEF, Afghan government, Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, child labor, child labour, Badakhshan, Herat | Leave a Comment »
Posted by warvictims on July 23, 2009
KABUL, July 22 (Xinhua) — Eleven people were killed as Taliban insurgents entered a mosque in Kunduz province in the north of Afghanistan, a local newspaper reported Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Actors, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Civilian Casualties, Clusters/Mines, Country, Government, Insurgents, Military, Region, Tactics, Taliban, Type of Harm | Tagged: Afghanistan, Civilian Casualties, civilian deaths, Insurgents, Kunduz, militants, mine, Taliban | Leave a Comment »
Posted by warvictims on July 23, 2009
Wednesday 22 July 2009 21.04 BST
In a country where politics is dominated by tribal chiefs, village mullahs and unsavoury warlords, the people of Afghanistan will tomorrow be treated to a unique exercise in modern democracy. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Actors, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Country, Election, Government, Journalists, Other, Region | Tagged: Abdullah Abdullah, Afghan elections, Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, Hamid Karzai, journalist, Kabul | Leave a Comment »
