AFGHANISTAN: FORMER RUSSIAN EMBASSY IN KABUL BECOMES HOME TO NEARLY 4,000 REFUGEE FAMILIES.

Record ID: 208344

  • Title: AFGHANISTAN: FORMER RUSSIAN EMBASSY IN KABUL BECOMES HOME TO NEARLY 4,000 REFUGEE FAMILIES.
  • Date: 28th November 2001
  • Summary: (U6) KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (NOVEMBER 27, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV/CU: FORMER RUSSIAN EMBASSY/ WAR DAMAGE ON FACADE/ EMBASSY COMPOUND (3 SHOTS) 0.13 2. GV/MCU: VARIOUS OF AFGHAN REFUGEES POSING FOR CAMERA IN FRONT OF EMBASSY (3 SHOTS) 0.28 3. GV/MV: BUILDING SHOWING BALCONIES AND DAMAGE/ REFUGEES POSING FOR CAMERA/ REFUGEES ON BALCONY (3 SHOTS) 0.41 4. VARIOUS: VARIOUS OF REFUGEES QUEUEING FOR WATER/ WATER BEING PUMPED FROM TANKER/ REFUGEES WAITING FOR WATER (6 SHOTS) 1.25 6. TV: EMBASSY COMPOUND 1.30 7. GV/CU: VARIOUS OF REFUGEE CHILDREN SITTING ON BALCONY OF A HOUSE IN THE COMPOUND (2 SHOTS) 1.41 8. GV/CU: REFUGEE ABDUL KERIM PLACING "UNHCR" PLASTIC BLANKET ON THE FLOOR OF HIS HOUSE/ KERIM'S CHILDREN/ CU BLANKET (3 SHOTS) 2.03 9. CU: (SOUNDBITE) (Farsi) REFUGEE ABDUL KERIM SAYING: "We are refugees from Qara Bagh, just north of Kabul. Everything, also trees, have been destroyed by war where we come from. We've been here two years now...If they rebuild our land we'll be very happy to go back." 2.24 10. VARIOUS: CHILD REFUGEES PLAYING IN COMPOUND (7 SHOTS) 2.57 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 13th December 2001 12:00
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  • Location: KABUL, AFGHANISTAN
  • Country: Afghanistan
  • Reuters ID: LVA6VGRZLL6C4O55DZ4OPIA6Q1XO
  • Story Text: The former Russian Embassy in Kabul is now home to
    nearly 4,000 families. Most are Pashtuns who fled to Kabul as
    the Taliban moved north in 1996.



    Conditions are desperate in the damaged embassy
    grounds, with no buildings intact, and a lack of water and
    electricity.

    Between 15,000 and 20,000 people are estimated to live in
    the compound of the former Russian embassy, in western Kabul.

    Most of them have lived there since Taliban forces conquered
    northern Kabul in the summer of 1999.


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