Afghanistan: Human Cost of 1980s Mujahedin War
Thursday, 8 March, 2012
Afghanistan: Human Cost of 1980s Mujahedin War
Thursday, 8 March, 2012
During the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, mujahidin groups targeted people like teachers who worked for the Communist authorities.
This radio piece is an interview with a woman called Rahela in the northwestern Faryab province, whose two sisters were killed because the family was seen as pro-government.
Farangiz Sawgand 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.
