U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Matthew Morin, left, points as U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Doug Palmer, right, scans a culvert for improvised explosive devices in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, Aug. 7, 2013. Morin and Palmer are assigned to Engineer Troop, Regimental Support Squadron, Combined Task Force Dragoon. U.S. Army Photo by Spc. Joshua Edwards
The Dead Afghan’s Tale: How Afghanistan’s Poorest Bear The Brunt Of The War -- Time
The young boy does not say a word. His eyes water as he turns away, staring out the window or at the mud walls of his family home in Dasht-e-Qala, in Afghanistan’s northern Takhar province. Just across the river and over the hills lie Tajikistan and the vast expanse of Central Asia.
Abdul Basit has seen what no 7-year-old should see. He saw the dead body of his father Yoldash, an Afghan police officer, who was chopped up into six pieces by the Taliban and left to rot in the sun for nearly 30 days in western Farah province. The Afghan government did not even send a search or rescue mission for him. When Basit and his uncle Gul-Murad finally arrived to pick up the corpse, Yoldash’s two hands and half of his torso were missing.
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