It was too late to save him. We were told of helicopters that flew over every two or three days and dropped these sorts of mines in the form of watches. match boxes. stones. cigarette packs or childrens toys. We discovered that many civilians. above all children. had been injured by these mines and were waiting at the Red Cross hospital in Pakistan in the hope that they might be fitted with artificial limbs." I should note here that hospitals treating the refugees are in urgent need of artificial limbs and of experts in plastic (facial) surgery. The French doctorsthere were about 25 of them in allkept their lifesaving activities in Afghanistan secret for many months. in the hope that if they said nothing. the Russians would not bother thembut they decided to tell their story to the world late last year after concluding that the Russians were deliberately and systematically bombing their hospitals. along with villages. farms and crops. One of them.
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