Bala Karz. and Mushkizi in the province of Kandahar. 360 persons were executed in the village square. including twenty girls and about twenty old people. "In March 1984. several hundred civilian were massacred in the villages of DasheBolokhan and DasheAsukhan in the Kohistan region. "In November 1984. some forty civilians were massacred in the village of Zirvq situated in the Urgun region after two weeks of steady bombardment. According to the witnesses. several houses were destroyed and the cattle decimated." Furthermore. the use of poison gas and boobytrapped toys has largely been proved. according to the report. The devastation of the countryside and the villages. and the deportations of the people (in last 1980. the Soviets emptied Pamir of its entire population). have brought the expected and desired result. famine. This famine is a chronic fact of life for about half a million civilians (close in proportion to the Ethiopian famine). According to the group of doctors known as Medecins sans frontitres. infant mortality caused by malnutrition reached a stupefying 85 per cent in the winter of 198485. Another result was the exodus. More than four and a half million Afghans (a figure were fairly certain about) have fled their country since 1978. mostly to Pakistan. Given that the official figure of displaced persons worldwide. according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. is approximately ten million. that means that nearly one out of every two refugees on this planet today is an Afghan. If you add to this figure the number of resistance fighters killed. of those executed. of civilians massacred or starved to death (a figure that can prudently be put at a million) this means that of the 13 to 14 million inhabitants of the country in 1978 there remain today on Afghan soil about eight million. Put otherwise. nearly 40 per cent of the population is either in exile. or dead.
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