RUSSIA/AFGHANISTAN: ARMY COMMANDER CRITICIZES TREATMENT OF AFGHAN WAR VETERANS.

Record ID: 982893

  • Title: RUSSIA/AFGHANISTAN: ARMY COMMANDER CRITICIZES TREATMENT OF AFGHAN WAR VETERANS.
  • Date: 13th February 1999
  • Summary: KUNAR VALLEY, AFGHANISTAN (1981) (REUTERS--ACCESS ALL) 1. GV/LV: WIDE OF MOUNTAINS/ SOVIET HELICOPTER PATROLLING KUNAR VALLER/ MUJAHEDIN GUERRILLAS HIDING BEHIND MOUNTAIN ROCKS/ HELICOPTER FIRING INTO MOUNTAIN, EXPLOSIONS IN WOODS (9 SHOTS) 0.48 MOSCOW, RUSSIA (FEBRUARY 7, 1999) (REUTERS-ACCESS ALL ) 2. GV/CU: MEDICAL DOCTOR WITH GEIDAR YAMALIEV, AFGHAN WAR VETERAN, PUTS ON PAIR OF ARTIFICIAL LEGS (2 SHOTS) 1.01 3. GV/CU: GEIDAR WALKING AROUND ON ARTIFICIAL LIMBS/ DOCTOR WORKING WITH ARTIFICIAL LIMBS (3 SHOTS) 1.35 4. GV/CU: AFGHAN WAR VETERAN, RAFEAL, DOING REHABILITATION EXERCISES (3 SHOTS) 1.57 UNKNOWN LOCATION, AFGHANISTAN (1980) (REUTERS--ACCESS ALL) 6. GV/PAN: SOVIET TANK ROLLING INTO AFGHAN VILLAGE 2.04 7. GV/SV: ANTI-SOVIET AFGHAN TROOPS CLIMBING HILL/ FIRING GUN (3 SHOTS) 2.15 MOSCOW, RUSSIA (FEBRUARY 10, 1999) (REUTERS--ACCESS ALL) 8. MV: AFGHAN WAR VETERAN DMITRY KARKHOV IN BED, LIFTING HIS DAUGHTER ABOVE HIM, DAUGHTER LAUGHS 2.36 9. CU: SOUNDBITE (Russian) KARKHOV: "Previously, war veterns and invalids from the war enjoyed certain privileges and veterans' organistions could help them. But now, when I ask my veterans' organisation in Saint Petersburg for help, they say that they can only give me 50 roubles [slightly more than two U.S. dollars) . My pension is very little as well." 2.59 10. MV/CU: OFFICE OF ALL-RUSSIAN AFGHAN WAR VETERANS' SOCIETY/ PRESIDENT ANDREI CHEPURNOI SITTING AT DESK (3 SHOTS) 3.16 11. CU: SOUNDBITE (Russian) CHEPURNOI: "We left about 13,700 dead during the war and about 5,000 to 6,000 died in hospitals from war wounds and complications. But we have lost even more soldiers after the war from suicides and other related trauma." 3.43 12. GV: AFGHAN VETERAN IN WHEELCHAIR AT WAR VETERANS' SOCIETY 3.51 TERMEZ, SOVIET UNION (1988) (REUTERS--ACCESS ALL) 13. LV/GV: SOVIET TROOPS ON TANKS PULLING OUT OF AFGHANISTAN/ SOVIET SOLDIERS CHEERING/ MARCHING OUT OF AFGHANISTAN (4 SHOTS) 4.10 MOSCOW, RUSSIA (FEBRUARY 12, 1999) (REUTERS--ACCESS ALL) 14. CU: BORIS GROMOV, FORMER SOVIET COMMANDER IN AFGHANISTAN SOUNDBITE (Russian) GROMOV: "It was not a mistake to pull out of Afghanistan, it was a mistake not to have pulled out earlier." 4.20 TERMEZ, SOVIET UNION (1988) (REUTERS--ACCESS ALL) 15. GV/MV: TAJIK NATIONAL SOVIET TROOPS DANCING WITH WOMEN IN NATIONAL COSTUMES/ SOLDIER WITH MEDALS BEING KISSED BY HIS MOTHER AND FATHER (4 SHOTS) 4.54 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 27th February 1999 12:00
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  • Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA AND VARIOUS LOCATIONS, AFGHANISTAN
  • Country: Afghanistan
  • Reuters ID: LVA67NK6B3B07W8DW6USEFG9PN9W
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