DEATH OF A HERO
Ahmed Shah Massud
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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!
THE PLIGHT OF AFGHAN WOMEN [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
460306, Veiled women on the way to Tagab
460028 Kabul University, 1995
This student was busy re-filing the books which had survived the University Library blast, due to a rocket launched by Taleban, at that time located in Maidan Shar (15 mi. from Kabul)
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460231 Kabul, 1995, Teenagers in Sha-Re-Nau district
460095 Kabul, 1995 the Editor of "Kabul Weekly", with one of his Journalists
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460260 Shiite cemetery in Kabul
460300 Kabul Bazaar, Winter
460054 Kabul, 1995, News Speakers in Radio Afghanistan
460289 Jabal Seraj
460223 Kabul, 1995
461220 Kabul 1995, Afghan Red Crescent Society office
460045 Maidan Shar, 1995
This woman, whom I met at a gas station while traveling from Maidan Shar to Kabul, reported that her driver had been beaten by Taleban for not obscuring windows while driving around a woman (herself)
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460590 Kabul, 1995
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460316 Kabul, November 1996
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460282 Kabul, 1996
460285 Kabul, 1996
461227 Kabul
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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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