Made homeless by Taliban, Afghans shelter in caves

[Coventina]

Source: Reuters

MULAYAN, Afghanistan, April 20 (Reuters) - The cave Sakhi Allah now calls home was a potato store when he was a child, growing up in the lush river valley of Afghanistan's remote central highlands below his current front door.

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His home was sacked by the Taliban and years as a refugee have left him, and those neighbours who also straggled back, too poor to rebuild their homes.

Instead they moved into centuries-old caves that overlook the valley, probably hollowed out by Buddhist monks long before the valley's conversion to Islam.

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The village is set in the fertile Bamiyan valley. It looks idyllic, tucked among snowy mountains, but has always been a dangerously tempting prize for regional rulers.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/asiaCrisis/idUSISL414964

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These people are Shi'ites, and therefore severely mistreated and often killed by the Taliban.

[AlphaCentauri]

1. Operation Enduring Freedom hasn't solve any of this problems?

maybe it's not aim to end poverty

[Javaman]

2. wait, Wait! I thought OBL was hiding in a cave?

oh never mind, I forgot, he's dead.

[liberal N proud]

3. At least Afghanistan is mountainous and has many caves

Americans made homeless by the mortgage bankers (the other terrorist) are out of luck.

[bitchkitty]

4. Homeless people here (Portland) either go to a shelter,

or to a tent city (I think it's still there) and some camp by the river in my area. I used to see rows of sleeping bodies at the Old Town train station on my way to work.