Starving to Death - Afghanistan

March 1996
A shcoking report on Kabul under the Taliban.

My God why is Kabul being destroyed? sings a boy in Afghanistan. A young girls lies in hospital screaming. Her amputated leg hangs in the air. The people of Kabul are bitter, besieged on all fronts by the Taliban army. Women haggle over sacks of airlifted food. Their only hope of survival is Defence Minister, Ahmad Shah Massoud. Known to his enemies as the 'Lion of Panjshir', he is frantically driving across the snow topped desert to brief his Commanders. A freezing winter has halted the Taliban advance. In the respite, he tables a meeting to re-structure his army. We are granted a rare interview with Massoud as he talks of human rights, democracy and rights for women. We also have secret footage of Taliban leaders as they recommend amputation as punishment for stealing. In Kabul's hospital we talk to the victims who have been hit by Taliban rockets. They lie in ramshackle wards with little or no facilities. The Red Cross estimates that a million people are starving to death. Having funded the Mujahadeen in its fight against the Soviet Union, the West has lost interest. Massoud is alone in attempting to defend his city against Islamic fundamentalists.

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[bill291212]

real classy country.

[afg040]

TALIBAN is not muslims TULIBAN are the EVIL...............<----

LONG LIVE OUR HERO AHMAD SHA MASSOUD

[Derail07]

Starving to Death - Afghanistan<--- Marines and Americans are tryn to feed you and the Talaban keeps picking fights. So fucking starve for all I care

[OTHfreak123]

Wow. Massoud is a pig. Look at the devastation and poverty of Kabul, and look at him living in his fancy villa, feasting on rice and expensive fruit. What an animal, while he eats away millions were starving. Lion of Panjshir? What a ridiculous joke and insult.

[sexcbozo]

@MegaRoFLL Your a sick F@#$ seriously get a life and stop f@#$ing your mother and sister u incest f!@#

[MegaRoFLL]

I am dead serious when i say i would have thrown atomic bombs all over these places,and end they kind once and for all.What borns from terrorists, become terrorist, as beeing proved.

I would have nuked every inch, killing man, women, childs and horses alike, leaving nothing to live. Only then the war will be won.

[K3yB04dG000n]

Massoud is a hero. The Lion of Panshir.

[K3yB04dG000n]

@BabaKeko1 is that a joke? if you think that then you are an ignorant parasite who needs to be killed. these people should be burned.

[carabinieri210]

@HalalKafir Well my dear friend no body on this planet can live the same way the Quran says! its ridiculous, the Qurans way of life is not functional in todays world, and technology and communication that we have! Muslims must understand that if they live the way the Quran tells them to do so, they will lose all the countries economy, be isolated, and absolutely behind! WAKE UP PEOPLE!