Disabled Afghans storm UN event sending delegates fleeing

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KABUL - Dozens of disabled Afghans stormed a ceremony attended by several ministers to mark world disabled day on Saturday, sending delegates fleeing as they overturned furniture to protest government policy.

A man who lost a leg during Afghanistan’s decades of war doused himself with petrol and threatened to torch himself, shouting he wanted to highlight “unjust” policy towards the country’s thousands of disabled people.

He was stopped by fellow protestors and police. snip

The crowd shouted slogans against the US-backed government of President Hamid Karzai and the minister for the disabled, Sidiqa Balkhi, whom they said should be removed from her post.

[jillan]

1. That is a heartbreaking story.

If "regular" people are abused in these countries, I cannot even think about how disabled people are treated. :(

[Cleita]

2. Thanks for posting something that hasn't even entered our

radar until now.

[alittlelark]

3. WOW - K&R

[Erika]

4. I take it they are not overly impressed by W's impact

and liberation.