Afghanistan’s Beauty
Band-e Amir was to become Afghanistan’s first national park in the 1960s, but due to the instability of the Kabul government at the time, this did not happen. In 2008, Band-e Amir was finally declared Afghanistan’s first national park. But Hazaras who are the main inhabitants had severely been persecuted, in August 1998, the Taliban massacred approximately 4,000 Hazara in Mazara-e-Sharif; this massacre was followed by another the next month when the Taliban killed another 500 Hazara in Bamiyan.
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