A month later the Canadians moved in the bulldozers and demolished his farm and more than 600 of his vines, he said. “I did not make a complaint for the houses because no one can hear my voice,” he said.

Mr. Haidin, the village butcher, said he fled his home in such haste when the bombardment began that he did not have time to grab his savings, and the women fled without shoes and head coverings. They ran in fear for three hours, and his baby son remained mute for a week, he said.

His son, Hedayatullah, is now 5. Jobless, Mr. Haidin took the family back to the village this summer to try to live off the land. A huge bomb had destroyed his home, so he could not make out the boundary between his land and his neighbor’s, he said. He borrowed a house and planted vegetables on his small plot of land.

The Taliban were around but did not bother them, he said. But after 20 days, military operations and night raids by American forces grew so intense that the family came back to the city. “The situation is not calm,” he said. “All the children were crying and not sleeping.”

Mr. Haidin and the other villagers said they felt caught in a downward spiral of violence and poverty. “Everyone is living in poor conditions, going door to door,” Mr. Haidin said.

“I lost all my money when my house was bombed; I worked hard to save that money,” he said. “Of course we would go back to the village. We were happy there, we grew up there.”

He put in a general claim with other villagers for compensation through the district and provincial government offices to the Canadian military, but he said he never received anything.