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Like colours in a cheap fabric

Like colours in a cheap fabric

Soviet soldier Bakhretdin Khakimov was declared missing in action during the war in Afghanistan, which claimed the lives of 15,000 USSR soldiers and more than a million Afghans. Thirty-three years later, his family found out he was alive, living as a true Afghan among his former enemies.
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Upheaval in Afghanistan highlights the horrors of conflict

It’s hard to know where to begin when it comes to the situation currently unfolding in Afghanistan.