Posted in Actors, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Civilian Casualties, Country, Crossfire Deaths, Crossfire Injuries, Government, Gunfire, Insurgents, ISAF, Military, NATO/Allies, NGOs, Region, Tactics, Taliban, Type of Harm, tagged Afghanistan, Britain, British troops, bullets, Civilian Casualties, civilian deaths, Helmand, international development, Kabul, Laskhar Gah, shrapnel, Taliban, United Kingdom, USAID on July 13, 2009 |
By Jerome Starkey in Lashkar Gar
Monday, 13 July 2009
Their homes have been destroyed, their schools have been closed and all three know friends and family who have been killed in the fighting. Helmand, their homeland, has been transformed in the past 60 years from a beacon of international development into a giant narco-farm controlled by the Taliban. (more…)
