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TAPE: EF01/0763 IN_TIME: 07:25:35 DURATION: 2:52 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan, October 29, 2001 SHOTLIST: 1. Two disabled land mine victims walking with sticks 2. Close up leg 3. Man walking 4. Wide view man enters orthopedic clinic 5. Close up ICRC orthopedic Centre sign 6. Interior view of courtyard and victims waiting for treatment 7. Close up man with no leg 8. Close up leg stump with bandages 9. Interior doctor with mine victim sitting down on table 10. Close up taking bandages off 11. Doctors measure leg 12. Close up doctor writing on paper 13. Doctor putting caste around leg 14. Doctor taking finished hardened model of leg 15. Leg making workshop 16. Technicians working 17. Prosthesis manufacture 18. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mine Victim, Arra, Afghani villager: "I was taking my sheep up on the mountain. I did not know there were mines there. when I walked close to the bunker, the mine exploded and blew my leg off." 19. Technicians fitting new leg onto victim 20. Mine victim walking 21. SOUNDBITE: (English) Alberto Cairo, Orthopedic Centre Director: "In the whole of Afghanistan, there are about 25,000 people who have lost one leg or one arm or both, due to the land mines." 22. Boy getting new leg fitted 23. Street scene with boy trying to run with his new leg STORYLINE: More than 20 years of war in Afghanistan has left a terrible landmine legacy and indeed Afghanistan is amongst the most land-mined countries in the world. Thousands of Afghans, many of them children, are killed or maimed every year by mines, many of which were planted during the Soviet occupation. The landmine situation has also not been helped by the ongoing conflict between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance, who accuse each other of laying more mines. An estimation of mine statistics is extremely difficult but the UN believes that more than 10 million unexploded mines or bombs remain in Afghanistan. Although there are hospitals that can provide artificial limbs this does little to minimise the impact on ordinary Afghans whose livelihood largely depends on being able to do manual work.

Source ABCNEWS VideoSource
Title: Afghanistan Panjshir Valley Amputees - Afghan landmine victims
Date: 10/30/2001
Library: APTN
Tape Number: VSAP319733
Content: TAPE: EF01/0763 IN_TIME: 07:25:35 DURATION: 2:52 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan, October 29, 2001 SHOTLIST: 1. Two disabled land mine victims walking with sticks 2. Close up leg 3. Man walking 4. Wide view man enters orthopedic clinic 5. Close up ICRC orthopedic Centre sign 6. Interior view of courtyard and victims waiting for treatment 7. Close up man with no leg 8. Close up leg stump with bandages 9. Interior doctor with mine victim sitting down on table 10. Close up taking bandages off 11. Doctors measure leg 12. Close up doctor writing on paper 13. Doctor putting caste around leg 14. Doctor taking finished hardened model of leg 15. Leg making workshop 16. Technicians working 17. Prosthesis manufacture 18. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mine Victim, Arra, Afghani villager: "I was taking my sheep up on the mountain. I did not know there were mines there. when I walked close to the bunker, the mine exploded and blew my leg off." 19. Technicians fitting new leg onto victim 20. Mine victim walking 21. SOUNDBITE: (English) Alberto Cairo, Orthopedic Centre Director: "In the whole of Afghanistan, there are about 25,000 people who have lost one leg or one arm or both, due to the land mines." 22. Boy getting new leg fitted 23. Street scene with boy trying to run with his new leg STORYLINE: More than 20 years of war in Afghanistan has left a terrible landmine legacy and indeed Afghanistan is amongst the most land-mined countries in the world. Thousands of Afghans, many of them children, are killed or maimed every year by mines, many of which were planted during the Soviet occupation. The landmine situation has also not been helped by the ongoing conflict between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance, who accuse each other of laying more mines. An estimation of mine statistics is extremely difficult but the UN believes that more than 10 million unexploded mines or bombs remain in Afghanistan. Although there are hospitals that can provide artificial limbs this does little to minimise the impact on ordinary Afghans whose livelihood largely depends on being able to do manual work.
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