If we’re still quietly hoping that wars would end and people all over the world would get along peacefully, the dreams and demands of the Helmand Peace Convoy would give us courage and evidence. When Amanullah Khateb joined the Convoy, now called the People’s Peace...
Kunduz MSF Hospital US Bombing Survivor, ‘I want my story to be heard.’
“I feel very angry, but I don’t want anything from the U.S. military,” said Khalid Ahmad, a 20 year old pharmacist who survived the US bombing of the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Kunduz on the 3rd of October, “God will hold them...
#Enough! We Can Respond to the Tears of Kunduz Refugee, Abdul Fatah
We live in a World at War, and as fellow human beings, what can we do for refugees like 45-year-old Abdul Fatah, who has been crying lately, who doesn’t have a home in his own home?World at War is the title of a report UNHCR released in June 2015, in which António...
A Question From Afghanistan, ‘Can We Abolish War?’
Hadisa, a bright 18-year-old Afghan girl, ranks as the top student in her 12th grade class. “The question is,” she wondered, “are human beings capable of abolishing war?”Like Hadisa, I had my doubts about whether human nature could have the capacity to abolish war....
My Father Was Killed by a Computer, Says 7-Year-Old Afghan Child
Imal, a 7-year-old Afghan student in the 2nd grade, came to visit us in Kabul.As Imal grew up, he kept asking his mother where his father was. His mother finally told Imal that his father had been killed by a drone when he was still a baby. If you could see Imal in...
