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The neglect of Kabul’s disabled war veterans

AAN Team

al-Jazeera, 4 January 2014 An article co-authored by AAN’s Obaid Ali and former AAN colleague Ali Latifi describing the awful condition in which many of Afghanistan’s hundreds of thousands of disabled (many of them as a result of the war) have to live.

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Ground Battles: Kabul’s disabled street sellers take on the government

Obaid Ali

In the past months, Kabul has seen large demonstrations of disabled people, most of whom were injured during fighting in one or more of the wars of the past three decades. Up to 300 men marched in front of the parliament or the presidential palace. The protests were in response to a campaign by the […]

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