Posted 19th September 2001

Limbs, No body Introduction
by Alan Marston

Afghanistan is now being systematically demonised, yet only a week ago it was ignored. In the interests of justice facts must be brought out, and the greatest fact of life - discovered by the great German philosopher Hegel and subsequently adopted by all those who profess rational thought - is that history provides the stage for the present. To ignore history or distort it is to blunder blindly into the future in the grip of fear and anger, the formula for catastrophe.

World's indifference to the Afghan tragedy By Mohsen Makhmalbaf, June 20, 2001, The Iranian

If you read my article in full, It will take about an hour of your time. In this hour, 14 more people will have died in Afghanistan of war and hunger and 60 others will have become refugees in other countries. This article is intended to describe the reasons for this mortality and emigration. If this bitter subject is irrelevant to your sweet life, please don't read it....