
Afghan Media Resource Center
The Afghan Media Resource Center (AMRC) was founded in Peshawar, Pakistan, in 1987, by a team of media trainers working under contract to Boston University. The goal of the project was to assist Afghans to produce and distribute accurate and reliable accounts of the Afghan war to news agencies and television networks throughout the world. Beginning in the early 1980’s amidst a news blackout imposed by the Soviet backed Kabul government, foreign journalists had become targets to be captured or ...
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Commander Hussain Anwari with Muj around the Dead bodies of martyred Muj in Sanglakh District of Maidan Wardak Province.
Decomposed dead bodies of Soviet soldiers killed in war by Muj in Paktia Province.
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Commander Hussain Anwari with Muj around the Dead bodies of martyred Muj in Sanglakh District of Maidan Wardak Province.
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Decomposed dead bodies of Soviet soldiers killed in war by Muj in Paktia Province.
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Afghan Media Resource Center
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Muhammad Zubair
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Government captured military officers & soldiers posing for camera, Muj talking to the captured government soldiers & Muj posing for camera, a government military base captured by Muj & a decomposed dead body of a government soldier shot in war by Muj in Khost Province.
Local residents in a circumcision party of a child, the circumcized child laying on a bed, a local resident carpentering and A farmer moving with two oxen.
Decomposed dead bodies of Soviet soldiers killed in war by Muj in Paktia Province.
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Afghan Media Resource Center
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Abd al-Wahāb
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Reproduced pictures of the children and a woman killed by Soviet bombardment in Herat province of Afghanistan.
Topics: Pakistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Pakistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Decomposed dead bodies of Soviet soldiers killed in war by Muj in Paktia Province.
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Sayed Sulaiman Gailani of NIFA talking to Muj, killed militias, government captured buildings & military vehicles in Sharanah City of Paktika Province.
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Decomposed dead bodies of Soviet soldiers killed in war by Muj in Paktia Province.
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Government military aircrafts & Khost airport captured by Muj, commander Abdul Haq & Muj visiting the captured government posts & ammunitions, AMRC correspondent interviewing Commander Jalaluddin Haqqani, government militias & tanks captured by Muj in Khost Province.
The living condition of Afghan refugees and narcotics usage by addicted people in Peshawar city.
Topics: Pakistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Pakistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Decomposed dead bodies of Soviet soldiers killed in war by Muj in Paktia Province.
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Decomposed dead bodies of Soviet soldiers killed in war by Muj in Paktia Province.
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Decomposed dead bodies of Soviet soldiers killed in war by Muj, Muj on horses, operations & Muj military & physical training in Paktia Province.
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Government soldiers burned & killed in tanks shot by Muj, Muj moving on Jalalabad-Torkham Road, Muj preparing & firing a BM-12 rocket launcher in Samar Khail District.
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A Muj preparing a heavy machine gun for operations, Commander Engineer Ahmad Shah Massoud looking through binoculars, a view of green mountains, a group of armed Muj sitting at their post, a Muj carrying food, a Muj cooking rice, a child with a bullet-strip, a Muj praying, Muj standing beside the heavy weapons, a group of Muj moving for operations, Commander Ahmad Shah Massoud talking on the wireless phone & Muj posing for camera in Takhar Province.
View of Kandahari bridge and Deh Naw bus station (00:00:00)--Recording from government TV channel (00:00:24)--Muj in vehicle (00:15:40)--View of a blacksmith shop (00:15:50)--View of trucks on Logar road (00:16:22)--Dr. Najibullah speech to Kabul University professors in government TV channel (00:16:55)--Muj searching and defusing anti-personal mines (00:20:45)--Muj moving for operation (00:25:01)--Muj looking at a map (00:27:16)--Muj adjusting Sukkar-20 for fire (00:29:00)--Government soldiers...
Topic: afghanistan
Topic: afghanistan
Decomposed dead bodies of Soviet soldiers killed in war by Muj in Paktia Province.
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Muj standing on a Soviet armored tank seized as booty by them, Kabul regime's local offices building captured by Muj in Ningarhar province in August 1989
Decomposed dead bodies of Soviet soldiers killed in war by Muj, Muj on horses, operations & Muj military & physical training in Paktia Province.
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Decomposed dead bodies of Soviet soldiers killed in war by Muj in Paktia Province.
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
A Muj aiming a Stinger Missile, Muj helping a wounded Muj, a Muj teaching his group how to use the heavy weapons, armed Muj posing for camera & a Muj sitting on a motorbike in Kandahar Province.
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Decomposed dead bodies of Soviet soldiers killed in war by Muj in Paktia Province.
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
A Muj taking ablution, Armed Muj posing for the camera, a boy with an AK-47 grazing a flock, a boy collecting brush wood, beautiful landscapes of Ghazni province and two farmers loading clover on a donkey.
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Commander Hussain Anwari with Muj around the Dead bodies of martyred Muj in Sanglakh District of Maidan Wardak Province.
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Government soldiers burned & killed in tanks shot by Muj, Muj moving on Jalalabad-Torkham Road, Muj preparing & firing a BM-12 rocket launcher in Samar Khail District.
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amrc, cameraman Mohammad Hanif on a tank, armed Muj, amrc Director, Haji Sayed Daud interviewing captured militia commanders & decomposed dead bodies of government militias killed in war by Muj in Speen Boldak District.
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Decomposed dead bodies of Soviet soldiers killed in war by Muj in Paktia Province.
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Decomposed dead bodies of Soviet soldiers killed in war by Muj in Paktia Province.
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Living condition of Afghan refugees in a refugee camp in Peshawar city.
Topics: Pakistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Pakistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
A dead body laying on a mountain skirt, A sheep slaughtered by Muj, Muj preparing BM-1, Muj looking to a governmental aircraft and Armed Muj in a garden posing for the camera.
Decomposed dead bodies of Soviet soldiers killed in war by Muj in Paktia Province.
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Living condition of Afghan refugees in Peshawar city.
Topics: Pakistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Pakistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Afghan Media Resource Center
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Abd al-Wahāb
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Reproduced pictures of the children and a woman killed by Soviet bombardment in Herat province of Afghanistan.
Topics: Pakistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Pakistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Decomposed dead bodies of Soviet soldiers killed in war by Muj in Paktia Province.
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
The living condtion of Afghan refugees in Pakistan.
Topics: Pakistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Pakistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Afghan Media Resource Center
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Shafiqullah
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Government military aircrafts & Khost airport captured by Muj, commander Abdul Haq & Muj visiting the captured government posts & ammunitions, AMRC correspondent interviewing Commander Jalaluddin Haqqani, government militias & tanks captured by Muj in Khost Province.
Muj greasing their weapons, armed Muj in a garden posing for the camera, a Muj holding rpg-7 on his shoulder & posing for the camera, a kid with an AK-47 posing for the camera and an old man with his children posing for the camera.
People in a local bazaar, a boy carrying an empty sack & posing for the camera, Muj preparing & firing a heavy machine gun, armed Muj posing for the camera and two armed Muj on a post tower posing for the camera.
Mujahidin visiting destroyed houses, Muj carrying a martyred, Armed Muj pulling out an unexploded missile, smokes rising from earth due to government bombardment and Muj constructing a post.
Historical buildings, Ex-Emperor Sultan Mahmood Ghaznavi & other prominent people's tombs & Muj in anceint city of Ghazni Province.
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Muj preparing heavy weapons for operations, government military vehicles & ammunitions captured by Muj, decomposed dead bodies of government soldiers & militias in Samar Khail District.
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Muj carrying sukker-20 rockets, Muj loading a captured cannon artillery & a BM-1 and view of beautiful agricultural fields in Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan.
Afghan Media Resource Center
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Muhammad Rahim
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Muj putting garbage into a local cart, Two Muj carrying garbage by a local cart, Commander Ahmad Shah (Commander of Etihad-i Islami) talking with a Muj and Muj preparing sukker-20 rockets for firing.
amrc, cameraman Mohammad Hanif on a tank, armed Muj, amrc Director, Haji Sayed Daud interviewing captured militia commanders & decomposed dead bodies of government militias killed in war by Muj in Speen Boldak District.
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Muj moving on a road, A local resident preparing mud, A Muj firing ZPU-1, Muj carrying water, A boy with an AK-47 & a bird posing for the camera, Local residents selling grapes & apples and Armed Muj cutting fruit from a garden.
Afghan Media Resource Center
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Muhammad Hasan
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Living condition of Afghan refugees in a refugee camp in Peshawar city.
Topics: Pakistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Pakistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
A man praying in a cemetery, oxen threshing the harvest, A farmer winnowing the harvest, Armed Muj posing for the camera, Afghan kids with AK-47 guns and Muj preparing a recoilless weapon.
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Muj travelling in a vehicle, Muj sitting beside their vehicles, government posts & tanks captured by Muj, a local Bazaar, children walking on a road & view of winding mountain roads in Kunar Province.
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Afghan refugees and a dead body of martyr Mujahid.
Topics: Pakistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Pakistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Decomposed dead bodies of Soviet soldiers killed in war by Muj in Paktia Province.
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Muj greasing their weapons, armed Muj in a garden posing for the camera, a Muj holding rpg-7 on his shoulder & posing for the camera, a kid with an AK-47 posing for the camera and an old man with his children posing for the camera.
Houses destroyed by the government bombardment, a Muj standing beside a huge dig made by the government bombardment & a Muj aiming a Stinger Missile in Surkh Rood District.
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Dust rising from a mountain, Muj searching a captured Soviet tank, View of a decomposed body, Muj after capturing a governmental military base and unexploded landmines.
Muj, burned Soviet tanks, Soviet thrown bombs, destructed Soviet vehicles, destroyed houses & heavy soviet machine guns in Arghandab district of Kandahar Province.
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Landscape of a valley covered by snow, Muj carrying consignments on animals in the valley, Muj constructing a post, A Muj with ZPU-1 posing for the camera, A shepherd grazing a flock and Afghan kids in a room posing for the camera.
Afghan boys carrying consignments, Armed Muj posing for the camera and View of Muj's military base.
Local residents preparing mud & building a wall, An Afghan farmer working in a field, Muj beside an unexploded bomb, Muj pointing to unexploded anti-personnel mines and Afghan kids playing in Surkhrod district.
Afghan Media Resource Center
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Abdul Hai
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News from Pakistan national TV regarding Soviet Union withdrawal from Afghanistan (00:00:00)--Muj conference (00:42:00)--Mavlavi Muhammad Nabi Muhammadi speech (00:48:30)--Prof. Sayaf speech (01:05:00)--Burhanuddin Rabani speech (01:34:07)--Sibghatullah Mujadadi speech (01:18:28)--Mavlavi Khalis speech (01:40:00)--Gulbaddin Hikmatyar speech (02:05:00)
Topic: afghanistan
Topic: afghanistan
A Muj preparing a heavy machine gun for operations, Commander Engineer Ahmad Shah Massoud looking through binoculars, a view of green mountains, a group of armed Muj sitting at their post, a Muj carrying food, a Muj cooking rice, a child with a bullet-strip, a Muj praying, Muj standing beside the heavy weapons, a group of Muj moving for operations, Commander Ahmad Shah Massoud talking on the wireless phone & Muj posing for camera in Takhar Province.
Muj aiming ZPU-1, recoilless rifle, heavy machine guns & Kabul Regime's tanks & militias caught by Muj in Speen Boldak District.
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Decomposed dead bodies of Soviet soldiers killed in war by Muj in Paktia Province.
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Burhanuddin Rabbani Jamiati Islami leader, Commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, Abdullah Izam an Arab Muj & a Soveit helicopter shot down in Badakhshan Province
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
The living condition of Afghan refugees under the tents in Kacha Gari refugee camp in Peshawar city.
Topics: Pakistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Pakistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Commander Haji Abdul Latif posing for camera, the captured Silo-Building & King Mirwais Khan's Tomb, Muj standing beside their trucks, Muj visiting Zarghona Ana's tomb & Muj commanders participating in a meeting in Kandahar Province.
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Historical buildings, Ex-Emperor Sultan Mahmood Ghaznavi & other prominent people's tombs & Muj in anceint city of Ghazni Province.
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
A doctor treating & a Journalist from amrc interviewing commander Jalaluddin Haqqani in Khost Province
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
The business of Afghan refugees in Peshawar city.
Topics: Pakistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Pakistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Boys eating water melons, Sayed Suliman Gilani (National Islamic Front party's general commander for south Afghanistan) with Muj posing for the camera, Refugee caravan moving, vehicles moving on a road and Muj checking the captured ammunition.
Mawlavi Mohammad Younus Khalis leader of Islamic Hezb leading Muj operations, agriculture & a doctor treating a sick Muj in Khogiani Region of Nangarhar Province.
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Muj standing beside a captured government tank, a decomposed body of a government soldier laying on the earth, Muj eating water milon, a Muj aiming a recoilless rifle, Muj climbing a mountain & Muj sleeping on a mountain in Nangarhar Province.
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Muj standing at their post on a mountain, a BM-12 rocket launcher, Muj standing & sitting around a BM-40 rocket launcher fixed in a military vehicle, Muj firing a BM-40 rocket launcher fixed in a military vehicle in Samar Khail District.
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
Topics: Afghanistan, amrc, Afghan Media Resource Center
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The Afghan Media Resource Center (AMRC) was founded in Peshawar, Pakistan, in 1987, by a team of media trainers working under contract to Boston University. The goal of the project was to assist Afghans to produce and distribute accurate and reliable accounts of the Afghan war to news agencies and television networks throughout the world. Beginning in the early 1980’s amidst a news blackout imposed by the Soviet backed Kabul government, foreign journalists had become targets to be captured or killed. The AMRC was an effort to overcome the substantial obstacles encountered by media representatives in bringing events surrounding the Afghan-Soviet war to world attention.
Beginning in 1987, a series of six week training sessions were conducted at the AMRC original home in University Town, Peshawar, Pakistan. . Qualified Afghans were recruited from all major political parties, all major ethnic groups and all regions of Afghanistan, to receive professional training in print journalism, photo journalism and video news production Haji Sayed Daud, a former television producer and journalist at Kabul TV before the Soviet invasion, was named AMRC Director.
After the completion of their training, 3-person teams were dispatched on specific stories throughout Afghanistan’s 27 provinces, with 35mm cameras, video cameras, notebooks, and audio tape recorders. Photo materials were distributed internationally through SYGMA and Agence France Press (AFP), Video material was syndicated and broadcast by VisNews (now Reuters), with 150 broadcasters in 87 countries Euronews and London-based WTN (now Associated Press),Thames Television, ITN, Swedish, French, Pakistani and other regional networks.
In 2000 AMRC began publishing a popular and influential newspaper in Kabul; ERADA (Intention). With one interruption, ERADA publication continued until 2012.
The AMRC collection spans a critical period in Afghanistan's history – (1987 – 1994) including 76,000 photographs, 1,175 hours of video material, 356 hours of audio material, and many stories from print media.
In 2012 AMRC received a grant to digitize the entire AMRC archive, to preserve the collection at the U.S. Library of Congress. AMRC senior media advisors Stephen Olsson and Nick Mills were trained in the digitization processes by the Library of Congress, then spent two weeks in Kabul training the AMRC staff. The digitization and metadata sheets (in English, Dari and Pashto) were completed in 2016, and were welcomed into the Library of Congress with a formal ceremony. We are now making the entire AMRC collection available through our on-line partner, The Internet Archive.
Now the entire collection is readily available to scholars, researchers and publishers. All royalties for commercial use of the photo images and video material will continue to support the non-profit work of the AMRC.
Beyond the AMRC archive, the AMRC conducted dozens of training programs and workshops for writers and radio journalists, including training programs for Refugee Women in Development (REFWID) The AMRC also established radio and TV studios in the provincial capitaol, Jalalabad, and produced radio and TV programs, including educational radio dramas, for a variety of international organizations. AMRC also conducted public opinion polls in Afghanistan, including an extensive Media Use Survey in Afghanistan, financed by InterMedia, a Washington, D.C. group.
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- Addeddate
- 2018-03-22 19:41:32
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- afghanmediaresourcecenter
- Mediatype
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- 2018-03-22 19:41:32
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- erada-daily
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- 108.5 TB (in 880,980 files)
- Subject
- Afghanistan
- Title
- Afghan Media Resource Center
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