Les chroniques de Shéhérazade…

October 15, 2001

Chronicle 20: is that what humanitarian is?

Filed under: Afghanistan, Humanitarian world — admin @ 7:53 am

*** From October 15, 2001- Size: 30K – no picture- 2 pages – in French
A couple weeks after September 11 and the panic / hectic evacuation that followed, first from Afghanistan and then even from Peshawar, and after 10 days back home in France which were not at all the rest I expected, flying back to Islamabad, Pakistan where we stand in exile… Bitter thoughts…
new humanitarian face

October 10, 2001

Chronicle 17: September 11, 2001: History of an evacuation

Filed under: Afghanistan, Pakistan — admin @ 5:16 pm

*** From October 10, 2001 – Size: 56K – no pictures – 4 pages – in French
A chronicle written for AMI, the NGO I was working for, and partly published in their newsletter: how we learned about the attacks (I was then in Peshawar, Pakistan and about to go back to Kabul), how we first reacted, and then organized the evacuation of all the expatriates still on the field inside Afghanistan. One week of controlled panick, trying to keep cool blood despite the fear…
Evacuation

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