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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22 Jan 2011 | no comments » women
Sorya is a high school student, in her spare time, she helps her siblings collecting grapes on farm. Education under the Taliban went from bad to worse. Under the Taliban rule she wasn’t able to go school neither could work in the field. During the Taliban’s rule, only about 3 per cent of girls received some form of primary education. The prohibition of female education, coupled with the cultural mandate that women receive their health care from female health care providers, resulted in a vulnerable population receiving care from poorly-educated providers.
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02 Jan 2011 | 1 comment » kabul
The Old Kabul Bazaar exists today much the same as it did in the distant past. Metal workers still today pound out farm implements with hammer and anvil or etch intricate designs into blackened pans prior to sale, much the same as in centuries past. Children, animals, old men with their coursing hounds—all are as familiar in the Old Kabul Bazaar today as they were when caravans spanning the mountains and high deserts stopped in Kabul to secure the rare ingredients used in the millennial art of natural vegetable dyeing. Click Image to Enlarge.
18 Nov 2010 | no comments » kabul
Living in this part of Kabul is not easy, there’s no sanitation in this area, the residents usually come down and carrying water on their backs to the top of the hill. The field which is filled with little snow is the graveyard belongs to them as well. Parts of the city which were devastated during the civil war in the 1990s have been largely rebuilt. Large construction projects are going on all over the city.
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24 Jan 2010 | no comments » Children, hazara, people
Children in Behsud, Kajaw village, after Kochi (nomad) attacked and destroyed the plantation and burned the house of Hazaras, thousand of people became homeless. The people of the central Afghanistan have been victim of historical, institutional discrimination for over 100 years. Due to this systematic discrimination, this region is the least developed place in the country and their people are the poorest in Afghanistan. From 1889 to 1891, Abdur Rahman’s regime carried a genocide process against Hazaras in which 60% of Hazara population put to death and their lands have taken.
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