Gulwali Passarlay 🧡 Profile picture
Author of #TheLightlessSky🌌AfghanNomad|Educator 👨‍🏫|Speaker 📚🪁@speakerscollect Advocating & Campaigning for #Refugees Rights. BA Politics #UoM & MPA #CTPSR
Dec 8, 2021 30 tweets 5 min read
Guns, planes and bombs were the soundtrack to my childhood. Growing up in eastern Afghanistan, I had a good life. My father was a doctor, my mother was a housewife and midwife. But when I was ten, many closed members of my family were killed by US soldiers,- who believed we were hiding weapons and sheltering Taliban. This was when my struggle began.If the US was going make a deal with the Taliban they should have done in 2003/5,we would saved around 100k Afghan live. I would have still have my loved ones, not forced to flee/displaced