'Women were throwing their babies over the razor wire, asking the soldiers to take them.” Sky’s ramsaysky reports from Kabul as the relief operation to move thousands of people out of Afghanistan gets more desperate
A makeshift barricade is all that separates two armies who have fought for 20 years.
A senior officer told me they had no choice because the situation was out of control, but said the blockade will live with some of his soldiers for the rest of their lives. Fatima, not her real name, made it through the barricade clutching her daughter's hand. She thinks she might have a case but doesn't know who to speak to.She and her four-year-old have nothing but a UN letter identifying them as victims.
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