26 May 2011 | no comments » people
Despite being severely hampered by the central government, now Behsud residents face another major problem which could turn into an inter-tribal skirmish. Behsud is one of the most peaceful parts of Afghanistan but every year at this time, the nomads whom are ethnically Pashtun bring their flocks for grazing in the green pastures owned by Hazaras. For the past years the clashes left dozens of Hazaras dead, thousands displaced, thousands of Hazara houses were burned and looted. This year this story is happening again.
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24 May 2011 | no comments » women
Tahira’s home was bombed in the early morning while she was preparing for prayers. After the explosion she got up and ran to where her husband and 15 old son were sleeping and found the room no longer existed. She and one of her surviving sons worked to bring their bodies from the rubble, but were unable until they received help from people in their neighborhood.
I pictured her in 2008 while I was working for Jason P. Howe a British photojournalist in Kabul. Portion of this information courtesy of Our Bombs website that funded the project. You can got to their website and see some more picture. I might upload some photos related to the same subject but of course dissimilar to what you see on Our Bombs’ website. Portion of information will match up the Our Bobms’ and I am confidently use their caption because I have talked to Jason and he agreed.
22 May 2011 | no comments » Children
Afghanistan is the worst country for a child to be born in, according to the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees. Three decades of ongoing conflict have left tens of thousands of children orphaned on the street. The challenges are daunting, especially for children and women. Even though political and economic uncertainty and personal and community insecurity still exist in much of Afghanistan. 1 in 4 children die before reaching their 5th birthday. Only 50% of all Afghan children between the ages of 7 and 13 attend school.
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26 Jan 2011 | 3 comments » Bamyan
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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23 Jan 2011 | no comments » Herat
The famous minarets—ancient prayer towers that wobble about five stories up into the sky. They are crumbling, but still have bits of the original bright blue lapis tiles on the sides. The Fifth Minaret - all 55 meters of it - from 12 century -seems ready to collapse into a dusty heap of bricks and colored tiles at any moment. Herat in the past was the first city for the very highest expression of architecture, from all the other expressions of Islamic art, like calligraphy, mosaics, and poetry. It’s been described as the Florence of Afghanistan.
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