Window onto ordinary lives in the mayhem

Norma Costello travels to Keleti train station in Budapest, and speaks to some desperate Afghan children who crossed six countries only to encounter more hostility and police aggression.

Window onto ordinary lives in the mayhem

‘There are so many Taliban in my home. You cannot believe what we see. I am a student so they want to kill me. They want to kill me because I want to learn.”

Mohammed, from Logar province in eastern Afghanistan has just turned 15.

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