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...Afghan freedom fighter last night told an audience of 70 that the Soviet Union systematically employs outlawed weapons to "demoralize" the Afghani people, and called for U.S. military aid and supplies to help combat the Soviet threat...
Khanjar, speaking at the invitation of the Republican Club, described the toy bombs and mines used by the Soviets against Afghan citizens in an "unsuccessful attempt to demoralize the Afghani people." Such weapons, which maim and mutilate rather than kill, have been banned by the Geneva Convention...
...other Soviet defectors decided to return home last week. Igor Rykhov, 22, and Oleg Khlan, 21, who had deserted from their military unit in Afghani stan and found their way to Britain, turned themselves in to the Soviet embassy in London, and two days later were back in Moscow. British officials said that they had grown home sick after receiving letters from their families...
Afghanistan was invaded by Soviet troops four years ago and ever since has been the site of a bitter struggle between the guerillas and the combined Soviet and Afghani armies...
They arrived at a guerilla outpost just as a force of 10,000 Soviet and Afghani government troops entered the area in an attempt to relieve a garrison that had been besieged by the mujahedeen for two years...