The World - News from Aug. 7, 1985
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Afghan rebels tortured 264 Afghan government soldiers with medieval-style instruments, killing many of them before fleeing into Pakistan, a Soviet television report charged. An unusually detailed 20-minute film report showed dismembered bodies lying in a ruined village 40 miles from Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan. It was not immediately clear when the reported incident took place.
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