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Aired: Thursday, October 18, 2001 8-9PM ET
As bombs continue to fall on Afghanistan, the unintended damage continues to pile up. Thousands of Afghans have fled their home since the airstrikes began two weeks ago. Fifty thousand refugees have turned up in Pakistan since September 11th. Tens of thousands or more have fled their homes and headed for the hills within Afghanistan over the past several weeks. Why are these Afghans fleeing their homes when the U.S. says it is targeting only Taliban sites? What is life like as a refugee? And what can be done to help the now 4 million Afghan refugees worldwide?
| · | Rina Amiri, emigrated as a child with family 20 years ago, as part of the first wave of Afghan refugees | | · |
Guenet Guebre-Christos, regional representative for UN High Commissioner for Refugees |
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Loosing Your Bearings |
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Anne Butler Rice was born and raised in New York she has always been able to navigate through the city by the tall buildings in Manhattan, but now she says that since the September 11th attacks she has lost her bearings.
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