Posted on June 26, 2008 by warvictims
Posted By: Erica
On May 30th, 110 nations [now 111] signed the Cluster Munitions Treaty in Dublin, Ireland. The treaty bans the use, development and stockpiling of cluster munitions–a type of weapon that when dropped aerially or ground-launched, disperses hundreds or thousands of tiny submunitions (or bomblets) that can cover an area as wide as a [...]
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Posted on June 18, 2008 by warvictims
Posted By: Erica
Today I went to a small city, Gardez, a few hours south of Kabul. I stayed at a UN guesthouse and at different points of the day and night you could hear the faint sound of gunfire and explosions in the distance. Although Gardez itself is relatively stable, it’s only about 10 kilometers [...]
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Posted on June 12, 2008 by warvictims
Posted By: Erica
When his family members went missing, Shafek went with his father and his uncle to the “front lines” of Kabul (ironically a road that is now so peaceful that my office is located there). They saw bodies strewn everywhere. Many of them had been mutilated, a woman’s head atop a man’s body, or [...]
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Posted on June 11, 2008 by warvictims
Posted By: Erica
I met with a man named Shafek today. He works with a victim’s group, helping develop transitional justice programming for Afghan victims of conflict. Most of the Afghans in this group have suffered losses in the pre-2001 conflicts, and Shafek’s own experiences are drawn from the Afghan Civil War in the 1990s. He [...]
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Posted on June 9, 2008 by warvictims
Posted By: Ana, working on human rights issues in Afghanistan
“Are you able to understand my pain?”
I hid my eyes for a second, and then looked up at the woman I was talking to. I think she is in her fifties; her face burned by the sun, full of wrinkles; her eyes were searching every corner [...]
Filed under: Afghanistan, Ana, Guest Blogger | Tagged: Afghanistan, casualties, CIVIC, civilian casualties, conflict, human rights, humanitarian, Kabul, non-profit, pakistan, refugees, War, women | No Comments »
