To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (10508 ) 10/1/2001 12:04:51 PM From: Ilaine Read Replies (5) | Respond to CNN keeps broadcasting a documentary shot by a woman whose parents are from Afghanistan, "Beneath the Veil." It was filmed surreptitiously in various places in Afghanistan, showing how devastated Kabul still is, showing women begging, children starving, people being tortured, shot, hanged, dead bodies piled in stacks, one of them flayed so that the skull has no skin or flesh but still has eyes, three little girls who were raped for days by Taliban soldiers who killed their mother when she tried to protect them - the youngest was aged 9. She was able to film things other people could not because she speaks Pashtu and she wore a burka with a video camera concealed inside. There are other women who live inside Afghanistan who film things for human rights organizations, and some of the footage was shot by them and smuggled out.
