Serena Hotel attack two years on


by Conor Foley    
January 14, 2010 at 2:34 pm

Two years ago today gunmen attacked the Serena hotel in Kabul. A number of my friends were there at the time and a couple got caught up in the cross-fire. Here is an account by one of them about what happened.

Thor Hesla, a former colleague of mine from the UN mission in Kosovo, was amongst the people killed that day


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Conor Foley is a regular contributor and humanitarian aid worker who has worked for a variety of organisations including Liberty, Amnesty International and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. He currently lives and works in Brazil and is a research fellow at the Human Rights Law Centre at the University of Nottingham. His books include Combating Torture: a manual for judges and prosecutors and A Guide to Property Law in Afghanistan. Also at: Guardian CIF
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