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Lotfullah Najafizada

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  1. “Anti Taliban Commander General Masud or Marshal Masud now, sorry, Dostam, Marshal Dostam. He probably killed around a thousand Taliban fighters. So we were seeing these fighters, Taliban dead bodies as we were going to school. And I think I can never forget that It tells us and me so much about the tragedy of Afghan life.”

    2022-02-17 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 478 — Lotfullah Najafizada · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “I think they leave you with life-lasting Memories and flashbacks and some bitter, I think, memories of your life, I must say I can never forget the difficulty that my parents were going in just sending us to school. They had to pay while both of them were unemployed, they had to pay for the public school because the government, there was no government back then. And the civil war and the Taliban's takeover of Mazar Sharif, the incident that you're referring to, this is up in the north of Afghanistan. And I think we were hiding for three days when the Taliban tried to take over Mazar in 1996. And after three days, we were going to school. And I think in that particular battle, the Uzbek”

    2022-02-17 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 478 — Lotfullah Najafizada · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “We were in Kabul. Yeah, we were in the western part of Kabul known for being brutally damaged and destroyed If you look at pictures of Kabul here in Civil War, particularly the western parts of the city, you don't see any standing buildings. And yeah, and that's when we started moving. And I have been on the run since then.”

    2022-02-17 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 478 — Lotfullah Najafizada · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “Right, right. Yeah, they left, I think, 89, so I don't remember that. But the Soviet Union and the invasion, I think, changed the country. And their departure. Also resulted into a civil war. I remember I was five when we were getting rockets RPGs coming to our yard, to our house, and one or two a day. And then I think after a few days, my parents said, well, we can't live here anymore. And we didn't know where to go. So we have been on the road.”

    2022-02-17 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 478 — Lotfullah Najafizada · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Right, right. This is where my parents are. And I've been visiting them and hopefully I'll be back to Chicago at the IOP very soon.”

    2022-02-17 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 478 — Lotfullah Najafizada · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source