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Amerikanen worden gehaat in landen als Afghanistan, omdat Afghanistan een achterlijk, arm, bijzonder religieus land is en Amerikanen er komen om te bombarderen en te vechten. Amerikanen hebben geen enkele band met Afghanen.
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En de Russen komen met bloemen
Irrigation systems, crucial to agriculture in Afghanistan's arid climate, were destroyed by aerial bombing and strafing by Soviet or government forces. In the worst year of the war, 1985, well over half of all the farmers who remained in Afghanistan had their fields bombed, and over one quarter had their irrigation systems destroyed and their livestock shot by Soviet or government troops, according to a survey conducted by Swedish relief experts
The population of Afghanistan's second largest city, Kandahar, was reduced from 200,000 before the war to no more than 25,000 inhabitants, following a months-long campaign of carpet bombing and bulldozing by the Soviets and Afghan communist soldiers in 1987.[133] Land mines had killed 25,000 Afghans during the war and another 10–15 million land mines, most planted by Soviet and government forces, were left scattered throughout the countryside.[134] The International Committee of the Red Cross estimated in 1994 that it would take 4,300 years to remove all the Soviet land mines in Afghanistan.[135]A PFM-1 mine, often mistaken for a toy by children. The mine's shape was dictated by aerodynamics.
A great deal of damage was done to the civilian children population by land mines.[137] A 2005 report estimated 3–4% of the Afghan population were disabled due to Soviet and government land mines. In the city of Quetta, a survey of refugee women and children taken shortly after the Soviet withdrawal found child mortality at 31%, and over 80% of the children refugees to be unregistered. Of children who survived, 67% were severely malnourished, with malnutrition increasing with age
Civilians (Afghan)
- 850,000–1,500,000 killed
- 5 million refugees outside of Afghanistan
- 2 million internally displaced persons
- Around 3 million Afghans wounded (mostly civilians)
- Civilians (Soviet): Around 100 dead
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_in_Afghanistan