Speech #980001180

I would like to take this occasion to relay the details of a recent UPI report I have read documenting a Soviet atrocity in PadkhwabeShana village in the Logar Province of Afghanistan. An American. Michael Barry. led a threemember team to the village from November 26 to December 4. 1982. During his clandestine journey. Barry and his team members discovered the burned and charred remains of 105 Afghan civilians. primarily migrant workers and refugees. in an underground irrigation channel. These villagers had hidden underground because they were afraid of the approaching Soviet and Afghan troops. Once discovered. the Soviets trapped the Afghans by pouring an inflammable liquid. presumably gasoline or kerosene. into the irrigation channel. burning to death all 105 of the people inside.