coming together to celebrate international literacy day and they re on stage in front of boy scouts and girl scouts, in front of teachers and foreign ambassadors, the afghan president lamented that there s some ten million afghans currently illiterate and very clearly worried about the direction he is going in and the country is going in. listen to him express those fears to the audience. translator: i have pain in my heart. please understand me. i m afraid, my countrymen, please understand me. i m afraid my son, my own son would become a refugee run day. please, i don t want my son and your son to be a foreign citizen.
afghan developments. instead, in front of an audience of hundreds people, government ministers, foreign ambassadors, he broke down in tears when lamenting the fact there are more than 10 million illiterate afghans and making an appeal to the taliban to stop their war with the afghan government. take a listen to what he had to say. translator: i have pain in my heart. please understand me. i m afraid, my countrymen. please, understand me. i m afraid my son, my own son, would become a refugee one day. please. i don t want my son and your son to be a foreign citizen. i want him to grow up here and i want him to go to school here.
karzai coming out for years trying to woo taliban commanders over. calling them his brothers saying put down your arms if you are afghans, muslims, stop shooting at your fellow people. interesting scene here today, al pip he was speaking in what was supposed to be a celebration of educational achievement here in afghanistan. international literacy day and instead he broke into tears onstage. take a look at this performance by the afghan president. translator: i have pain in my heart. please understand me. [ applause ] i m afraid, my countrymen, please understand me. i m afraid my son, my own son, would become a refugee one day.