Posted in Actors, Afghanistan, Bomb, Civilian Casualties, Compensation, Country, Insurgents, NATO/Allies, Other, Tactics, Taliban, Type of Harm, tagged Afghanistan, Civilian Casualties, civilian deaths, Compensation, Kabul, Taliban, war victims on November 23, 2009|
AFP
By LYNNE O’DONNELL
November 22, 2009
KABUL — The stench of sewage hangs in the air as barefoot children clamber up a suburban hillside in Kabul, past green flags that flap over the graves of Afghans killed in suicide attacks.
Perhaps a third of the tombs, each surrounded by a wrought-iron fence, are marked as the final resting places of “martyrs,” as the victims of Taliban attacks are known.
Afghanistan is one of the world’s poorest countries, but three decades of war and an increasingly brutal Islamist insurgency have left it rich in martyrs and the misery their deaths leave behind.
In little more than three months, in Kabul alone, devastating suicide attacks have killed around 100 people. About 300 people have been injured. (more…)
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