If despair had a face, it would look like that of Abdul Karim Uzbek.
“I had already lost two children to the Taliban.
Today, I lost my country ”
, writes this native of Takhar, in Afghanistan, refugee in extremis in Van, in Turkey.
Sunday evening, he did not sleep overnight, glued to the screen of his smartphone, bombarded with images of panic relayed on social networks.
Like wildfire, the trap of the “Theology Students” had closed in Afghanistan.
At 40 years old, this father of six children knows their medieval methods - he has already endured them from 1996 to the American intervention in 2001. He is familiar with their threats - he has never ceased to endure them during the relative lull of these. last two decades.
Until danger knocks live on his door.
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“Two years ago,
” he said
,
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Taliban rockets targeting a military base near my home robbed me of my two oldest children on their way home from school.
Then there
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