 Up to 3,000 Afghan villagers have reportedly fled their homes following heavy fighting between Taliban and security forces in the southern Kandahar Province.
| Doesn't make a lot of sense to stay home and wait for the A10s to come calling, does it? And they say Pashtuns are ignernt. |
Most have taken refuge in the provincial capital, Kandahar. A program officer for the International Organization of Migration in Kandahar, Nasim Karim, told the AFP news agency that at least four villages have been evacuated from an area west of the city.
| "Wot the hell do you know? We ain't migratin'! We're gettin' out of the line of fire!" |
Karim said villagers have no other choice than fleeing. He said there are "threatened" if they don't support the Taliban; if they do they are being "bombed and shot at" by security forces.
| Sounds like a fair trade, dunnit? |
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