VICTIMS OF WAR
The Nowzad shelter in Afghanistan has been saving the lives of animals in this war-torn country for almost a decade. Now it faces a new enemy. Sue Corfield reports.
Sue Corfield
Onyx and Lucy (pictured here) are the pups of a stray called Sarah, who adopted US troops and kept watch for them in camp.
The shelter in Kabul.
Despite British troops having departed Afghanistan, the soldiers that fought there continue to help fund animal rescues, but now instead of facing regular bombings the Nowzad charity is confronted by a different threat — COVID-19.
Six years ago all but a handful of British troops departed from the country, marking the end of a war that claimed the lives of hundreds of British soldiers. Now, Afghanistan is rarely in the news, unless, like recently, a bombing suddenly puts it back in the spotlight.
In what remains a war-torn country with continuing unrest, few people give much thought to the animal casualties of the conflict, or the people who remain there attempting to bring their own brand of salvation to these victims of circumstance.
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