Afghanistan: Grim Secrets in Dasht-i Laili Desert

Afghanistan: Grim Secrets in Dasht-i Laili Desert

Monday, 27 February, 2012

 

The sands of the Dasht-e Laili desert around the city of Jowzjan in northern Afghanistan conceal the bodies of not one but a succession of massacres.

Thousands of people lie buried from a series of killings carried out over three decades of war in Afghanistan.

Rahim Ibrahim is an IWPR-trained radio reporter in Afghanistan.

This radio report, in Dari, was produced under IWPR’s Afghan Witness Project, designed to promote transitional justice.

Afghanistan
Conflict
Frontline Updates
Support local journalists