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JEFFREY BROWN (Newshour): "Killing the Cranes," the name comes from a story you tell of meeting with an Afghan friend of those large white birds that usually fly over the sky in Kabul. And he looks up and he realizes they're not there. And he says, "Have we even killed the cranes?"
EDWARD GIRARDET: Sadly, yes.
It was basically symbolic, meaning that when in end of March the cranes used to fly over Kabul, migrating from the south to the north to Siberia, and he said he didn't heard a single crane since being back in Kabul. This is 2004. And we had been discussing the impact of war, years of war, almost 30 years of war, on Afghans and how it traumatized them.
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