65 Steps To The Afghan Desert Grave That Began Decades Of War

From Times Online:

Thirty years had separated the moment since Pacha Mir last stood at the secret grave in a desert wasteland on the eastern side of Kabul and his return 12 days ago.

In 1978 he had been a young major in the Afghan Army, ordered in the dead of night to perform a clandestine mission by the Communists who had just seized control of his country in a coup.

Despite the passage of time, Pacha Mir, now 60, remembered how to find his way back to the spot. He told The Times at the weekend: “I knew that, just as day follows night, at some point in the future I would have to recall the place.

“So I had paced its position from a mark in the track. And I remembered those 65 steps for all the years that followed.”

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My Comment: This is the first step for Afghanistan to reconcile itself with its history. There are many more graves to dig up, and there will be many more new graves in the coming graves.