TITLE

Remains unearthed

PUB. DATE
August 1997
SOURCE
New Internationalist;Aug97, Issue 293, p6
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Focuses on the scavenging for human bones in gutters, fields and graveyards by adults and children in Kabul, Afghanistan, in an effort to survive financially. Cost of a skeleton; Uses of the human bones.
ACCESSION #
9709252103

Tags: KABUL (Afghanistan) -- Social conditions

 

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