DEATH OF A HERO
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK!
Tribute to
a defaced city
FAREWELL MARJAN...
Marjan, the one-eyed lone
lion is no longer the king of
Kabul zoo
PICTURES from the grenade attack!
DAILY LIFE IN KABUL [ 1 ] [ 2 ]

460184 Kabul, June 1995
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Ask Mr. James Natchwey (Magnum Photos), instead...

460022 Kabul, June 1995

460102 Kabul river mosque, 1995

460105 Kabul, June 1995: Self beating Shiites at end of Muharran

460124 Kabul, Red Crescent Psychiatric Hospital

460153 Public transportation

460536 Kabul, 1996: In front of the Zoo

460626 Kabul, June 1995: Movie theater featuring indian war movie

460233 Public transportation

460471 Kabul, Winter 1996

460255 Kabul, June 1995 Nightlife in Kebab House in Sha-Re-Nau district

460101 Kabul, news speaker at Afghanistan state Radio / Television

460540 Kabul, 1995 Kabul river Mosque

460173 Traffic Policemen on their soviet-made, white painted sidecar

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460444 Kabul, 1995: Straight in front of ICRC compound was this mechanical repair shop, a genuine VW specialist

460117 Kabul, June 1995, Shiite Cemetery

460521 Kabul, 1995
Motorbike repair shop

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460454 Kabul, November 1996
A small crowd gathered in a mechanical shop in front of Inter-Continental Hotel

460079 Kabul, 1995
A Coke bottling shop. Genuine bottles were refilled with a locally made Coke-distant-relative soda.

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460604 Kabul, Karte Seh district, Winter 1996
Woodcutter

460548 Kabul, Winter 1996
Downloading food supplies from ICRC

460085 Kabul, 1995 Dismissed Mosque along the green line

460135 Kabul, 1995
Carpet seller in Chicken Street. I took this picture, exhausted, after a 40-minutes fierce deal over a Bukhara carpet. The said carpet in currently under an armchair in my living-room

460135 Kabul, 1995
The entrance of Kabul museum, closed and heavily guarded at that time

461163 Dismissed Coca Cola factory in south Kabul

461166 Jade Maiwand alley, Kabul

461170 Local traffic in Kabul

461171 Building in Jade Maywand alley, Kabul

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461191 Jade Maiwand alley, Kabul

461198 Family in a Shiite cemetery in Kabul

461199 Street food-seller

461201 The main mosque in Kabul

461202 A dismissed, war damaged mosque in south Kabul

461205 Construction work in Kabul

461207 Bodybuilding club along Kabul River
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461213 Route to Salang pass

461214 Kabul view

461216 Movie theater panel in Sha-Re-Nau district in Kabul

461219 Along the green line in southern Kabul

461220 The Afghan Red Crescent Society office in Kabul

461228 Kabul, a commercial photographer's shop

461229 Kabul, Shiites beating themself for Muharran, in June 1995

461230 Kabul, the lesser money market

46134 Kabul, Shiite cemetery

461235 Kabul 1995, student at work in the University library to re-file the book left untouched after the library was hit by a rocket coming from Taleban-held position in Maidan Shar

461236 Bakery in Kabul. In theforeground the delicious flat, unsalted, typical afghan bread, "Nan"

461242 Coke seller with his chariot in Kabul, 1995

461253 Camel market, Kabul

461265 Koochi nomads61265 Kochi nomad convoy along the Kabul - Maidan Shar route

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Maria Grazia Cutuli
sketch courtesy and © F.Sironi

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Farewell, good ol' Marjan...
The lone king of Kabul zoo succumbs to his age at 48, after surviving years and years of deprivations and symbolizing to kabulis the spirit of resiliency itself

Well.....that's sad news, indeed. To my eyes, Marjan symbolized hope.  However, in thinking about that dear old lion's death I choose to believe that when he heard the swoosh of kites flying over Kabul, heard the roars from the football stadium, experienced the renewed sounds of music in the air and heard the click-click of chess pieces being moved around chessboards....well, the old guy knew that there was plenty of hope around and it was okay for him to let go and fly off, amid kite strings, to wherever it is the spirits of animals go.
Peace to you Marjan and peace to Afghanistan.
[Diana Smith, via the Internet]

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