Maya’s Christmas peace trip in war ravaged Afghanistan
Published on Saturday 29 December 2012 06:00
A PEACE campaigner is currently in war-torn Afghanistan on a peace delegation over the festive period.
Maya Evans, from St Leonards, has been in the capital Kabul for more than a week and within that time has visited a refugee camp and a centre for visually impaired children run by volunteers. She has also spoken with a woman who lost her two teenage sons in a suicide bombing attack.
The delegation is being hosted by Afghan peace makers.
Maya said: “It’s a very eye-opening situation to live with Afghans who tell you their everyday stories; family members killed in drone attacks, being held up and threatened by the Taliban at provincial road blocks, losing a cousin to a recent suicide bomb attack in Kabul.”
http://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news/local-news/maya-s-christmas-peace-trip-in-war-ravaged-afghanistan-1-4624454
A timely reminder that the war is not more than eleven years old, it's been going on for nearly thirty-two years.
