"A nation is dying"
Subtitle: Afghanistan under the Soviets, 1979-87
By: Jeri Laber and Barnett R. Rubin.
Contributors: Rubin, Barnett R.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Evanston, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Human rights -- Afghanistan.; Afghanistan -- History -- Soviet occupation, 1979-1989.
Description: "Nearly one million Afghan civilian non-combatants ... have been murdered during the eight years of the Soviet-Afghan conflict ... More than five million refugees ... have fled to neighboring Pakistan and Iran. It is vital for the world to know what has happened. [This book] analyzes these events without political or ideological bias, recording human rights violations on both sides of the conflict, and provides an invaluable framework in which to understand them"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 155-157.
Includes index.