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Lawyer - Kimberley Motley
What have almost two decades of US intervention in Afghanistan achieved? HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to US lawyer Kimberley Motley, who moved to Kabul to defend the poor.
What have almost two decades of American intervention in Afghanistan achieved? HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to Kimberley Motley - an American lawyer who went to Kabul in a training capacity and stayed to become a respected litigator fighting for the rights of the abused and the powerless. The death toll in the Afghan conflict far outstrips the losses in Syria and Yemen. But the grim statistics tell only a part of Afghanistan’s story. Does her experience give grounds for hope or despair?
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Mon 30 Sep 201919:06GMT
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