Posted on 10/11/2001 1:43:27 AM PDT by stlnative
This is an older story I found, but is worth reading today. It just gives more insight on how sick the Taliban is and how poor the people are in Afghanistan are. Pakistan is also disgusting for opening up a market for these human bones.
Source: World Press Review, Vol. 44, No 5, August 1997
Remains unearthed Adults and children in Kabul have found a new way to spend their free time and make ends meet – they scavenge for human bones in gutters, fields and graveyards. They then sell the remains at the town market, where a skeleton can bring up to $1.50. The bones are then shipped to Pakistan, where they are used to make soap, cooking oil and chicken feed. This gruesome trade began last year after the Taliban took control of Kabul and inflation soared due to the regime’s new trade restrictions and labour laws. ‘I used to dig for scrap iron,’ says Faizdeen, a bone gatherer in a graveyard west of the city. ‘So now I dig for bones.’
click here to see small picture of people digging for bones in a pile of debris
Cooking oil??
On a side note, who'd want soap that starts out smelling like an unwashed goatherder?!
I thought the same thing........what's next, lampshades made from human skin?
I could use something to hang tools on out in the garage.
It'll be handy at Halloween too!
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