A new life for Afghanistan's amputees

Najmuddin suffered a personal tragedy more than 20 years ago when both his legs had to be amputated above the knee because of a landmine explosion. Today, he is a director of the ICRC's Orthopaedic Centre in Kabul where he meets and treats the victims of mines and improvised explosive devices every day.

In this film, Najmuddin explains how sharing his personal experience helps patients come to terms with their own injuries: "When someone like me comes to the Centre to be registered, he's sad, but if I roll up my trousers and show that I am like him, then this is a new life for him."

Even after a conflict ends, mines and explosive remnants of war such as unexploded bombs, shells and cluster-munition bomblets continue to kill and maim thousands upon thousands of people, many of them children.

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