Afghans haunted by U.S. cluster bomb attacks more than 20 years ago
STORY: Afghans haunted by U.S. cluster bomb attacks more than 20 years ago
DATELINE: July 24, 2023
LENGTH: 00:03:37
LOCATION: HERAT, Afghanistan
CATEGORY: SOCIETY
SHOTLIST:
1. various of the village
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Dari): BIBI JAN, Survivor of U.S. cluster bomb attack
3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Dari): BIBI JAN, Survivor of U.S. cluster bomb attack
4. various of survivors
5. SOUNDBITE 3 (Dari): NASIR AHMAD, Survivor of U.S. cluster bomb attack
6. SOUNDBITE 4 (Dari): MAHIDIN KHAN, Survivor of U.S. cluster bomb attack
STORYLINE:
Bibi Jan is an Afghan woman who lives in the Qala-e-Shatir village of Herat City, west Afghanistan.
She still remembers the horrific day in 2001 when the U.S. forces dropped cluster bombs on her poor village.
SOUNDBITE 1 (Dari): BIBI JAN, Survivor of U.S. cluster bomb attack
"It was 2:30 p.m. of the day, second Aqrab (Oct. 24 on the Persian calendar), oh God, it haunts me even at night whenever I remember. I was alive, although my head was bleeding."
Jan's daughter was badly injured and her d
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