SILENT VICTIMS OF A FOREVER WAR: warwounded_afghanistan20

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN -MARCH 22, 2016: Khuja Fareed, 24, a quadriplegic enjoys some time with his niece Roksar, 3 and a half years, at his home in Kabul on March 22, 2016. He is now a quadrapalegic injured while delivering supplies to a military base truck driver for the US military until he was shot in the neck during fighting between the Taliban and the US military. With no financial help from the US military or the Afghan government Khuja depends on his family to care for him.Every year the UN comes out with their report documenting the unfortunate carnage from America’s longest and most costly war in history. Along with the price tag estimated in the hundreds of billions, the human toll from a 2015 UN Assistance Mission To Afghanistan (UNAMA) report stated the number of Afghan civilians killed and wounded surpassed 11,000. which was the deadliest on record for civilians in Afghanistan since the US-led invasion more than 14 years ago.

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN -MARCH 22, 2016: Khuja Fareed, 24, a quadriplegic enjoys some time with his niece Roksar, 3 and a half years, at his home in Kabul on March 22, 2016. He is now a quadrapalegic injured while delivering supplies to a military base truck driver for the US military until he was shot in the neck during fighting between the Taliban and the US military. With no financial help from the US military or the Afghan government Khuja depends on his family to care for him.

Every year the UN comes out with their report documenting the unfortunate carnage from America’s longest and most costly war in history. Along with the price tag estimated in the hundreds of billions, the human toll from a 2015 UN Assistance Mission To Afghanistan (UNAMA) report stated the number of Afghan civilians killed and wounded surpassed 11,000.

which was the deadliest on record for civilians in Afghanistan since the US-led invasion more than 14 years ago.