Mr. William Claiborne. in an article in the Washington Post. referred to a growing feeling that there had been an increase in the number of massacres of civilians in several provinces of Afghanistan during the month of March. According to the article. refugees and travelers have reported hundreds of deaths of old men. women. and children during that month. The main point of the article. however. was not to document these reports of increased assaults upon the civilian population. but to emphasize the difficulties of western reporters in obtaining accurate and reliable information about the war in Afghanistan. Because Afghanistan has been sealed off to journalists by the Afghan government. reporters must rely on second or third hand accounts of the war. usually delivered in unnamed western embassies by anonymous western diplomatic sources. no questions asked.
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