Wasted children’s lives: the victims of Swedish development aid to Afghanistan

It was a cool March night of 2018 in Sweden but the atmosphere in Farzad’s room (pseudonym) was pensive and cold. The clock was ticking 10 PM. Farzad was preoccupied with pensive thought. His thought was wrapped in a deep apprehension. After a few minutes, he found himself on the ground in front of his friend’s house, but he could not remember anything more. Farzad tried to commit suicide and threw himself out of the window of his friend’s second house.

An hour later, when Farzad regained consciousness, he saw his clothes soaked in blood and felt severe pain in his head: “It was unbearable.” Instead of the hospital, his friends and neighbours, however resolved to take him into the room and used water as the only available medicine to wake Farzad.