There were three blinded and many paralyzed among my Mujahidins." Goljan goes on to speak of the battlefield. the devastated landscape. after the Russians were forced to withdraw: "Wherever you went.- he said. -There were dead snakes. withered trees. the animal world and nature were totally devastated . . . is it like this when the world perishes?" Those last words chill the blood: "Is it like this when the world perishes?" This is Afghanistan today. Another victims name is Yassamin. and her story was told recently by an italian journalist (Dino Cimagalli in Gente. January 22. 1982) who interviewed her and a number of other refugees in a camp near Quetta. Pakistan. The writer says this particular camp is also known as "the widows camp" because many of the women there lost their husbands in the Kerala massacre in the spring of 1979.
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