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A Young afghan hangs at a tree, swinging over the graves of a cemetary down Western Kabul.

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A fortune teller reads horoscope to Afghan women under burka in Western Kabul Kartai Sakhi cemetary.

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Afghan women walks free down town Kubul with out wearing the traditional burka.

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Heading to a wedding party in Kabul, women of all ages get in a car, displaying different fashion styles: At left, a burka coverings dark blue pants follows a fancy dress worn by a 30 year old. No burka and even more style for the young adults at right, and a pink lace dress on a five-year-old girl.

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A young women dances in a room full of women during a wedding party. Weddings in Afghanistan are little business and often reveal a true face of a society that went through 25 years of war: miserable, unhealthy and mentally weak.

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Women gather during a wedding party. Weddings in Afghanistan are little business and often reveal a true face of a society that went through 25 years of war: miserable, unhealthy and mentally weak.

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Women gather during a wedding party. Weddings in Afghanistan are little business and often reveal a true face of a society that went through 25 years of war: miserable, unhealthy and mentally weak.

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Surounded by girl friends and relatives, the bride looks at herself in a mirror during her wedding party.

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Drama at a wedding party down miserable South West Kabul suburbs. The bride's mother suffers from a hart attack after she discovered that the groom didn't buy the neckless he has promised for her daughter's wedding. Her daughter, the bride, helps her mother to put her veil. Weddings in Afghanistan are little business and often reveal a true face of a society that went through 25 years of war: miserable, unhealthy and mentally weak.

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Drama at a wedding party down miserable South West Kabul suburbs. The bride's mother got an hart attack when she discovered that the groom didn't buy the neckless he has promised for her daughter's wedding. A men doctor has arrived to give her an injection as she lays in a room packed with women relatives, all guests to her daughter's wedding. Weddings in Afghanistan are little business and often reveal a true face of a society that went through 25 years of war: miserable, unhealthy and mentally weak.

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Women gather during a wedding party. Weddings in Afghanistan are little business and often reveal a true face of a society that went through 25 years of war: miserable, unhealthy and mentally weak. Party over: Women going back under their burkas, as they are returning to their home.

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Women detained hide their face in a cell of the Walaayat Women Jail in Kabul. 26 women are detained in basic conditions, waiting for a trial or even only an eventual agreement reached in between the detained and their family. Mainly accused of adulterous and prostitution, the women may have more hope for their future since the Taliban aren't ruling the country any more. The new government has created a Women Ministry, to look after the Afghan women rights.

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Women detained with their children in a cell of the Walaayat Women Jail in Kabul. 26 women are detained in basic conditions, waiting for a trial or even only an eventual agreement reached in between them and their family. Mainly accused of adulterous and prostitution, the women may have more hope for their future since the Taliban aren't ruling the country any more. The new government has created a Women Ministry, to look after the Afghan women rights.

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Women detained hidde their face in a cell of the Walaayat Women Jail in Kabul. 26 women are detained in basic conditions, waiting for a trial or even only an eventual agreement reached in between the detained and their family. Mainly accused of adulterous and prostitution, the women may have more hope for their future since the Taliban aren't ruling the country any more. The new government has created a Women Ministry, to look after the Afghan women rights.

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Gas station and empty cliff.

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Hole of Bamiyan's Buddha destroyed by the Taliban in 2001

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An afghan women walks down Bamiyan cliff

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A young men walks by the buddhas rubble holding The Modern Method, an English teaching book. Two Afghan couple have travel from a village near Bamiyan, as a Friday promenade, to take a look at the buddhas ruins.

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Among the scares in Afghanistan are the silent ruins of Shahr-I-Zohak, in the Bamiyan valley, an ancient Buddhist town destroyed by the Mongol Genghis Khan in 1221. In 2002, Mines and snakes are the only garantee against looting and archeological site degradation.

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Among the scares in Afghanistan are the silent ruins of Shahr-I-Zohak, in the Bamiyan valley, an ancient Buddhist town destroyed by the Mongol Genghis Khan in 1221. In 2002, Mines and snakes are the only garanteeagainst looting and archeological site degradation.

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Afghan woman in Bamiyan

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By the Hazara ethnic group, down the Bamiyan buddhas rubble, symbol of Afghanistan today: a ruined country after 20 years of war.

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By the Hazara ethnic group, down the Bamiyan buddhas rubble, symbol of Afghanistan today: a ruined country after 20 years of war.

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In Bamiyan, returning refugees who have no more home to return to are using the buddhas caves, carved in the cliff, as a temporary shelter.

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Shomali plain, Charikar’s Primary school. Hundreds of children study in a destroyed school, also using the corridors as a class room.

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Shomali plain, Charikar’s Primary school. Hundreds of children study in a destroyed school, also using the corridors as a class room.

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Shomali plain, Charikar’s Primary school. Hundreds of children study in a destroyed school, also using the corridors as a class room.

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Shomali plain, Charikar’s Primary school. Hundreds of children study in a destroyed school, also using the corridors as a class room.

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Aman pushes his bicycle in the sand wind in Bamiyan valley.

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Every day, thousands of families transit in Kabul. Men, women, children, olds and sicks together, changing trucks, loading and unloading before they reach their final destination, home, as far as Mazar, Herat or the Bamiyan valley and the Shomalie plain. The UNHCR -United Nation High Committee for Refugees, considers the Afghan refugees return as their biggest operation ever, having to deal with a massive move of over 2 million refugees.

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Every day, thousands transit through Kabul: Women, men, children, the sick and the elderly, jumping from truck to truck to reach their final destination, it being Mazar, Herat or the Bamiyan valley. Refugees' return has become one of the United Nation High Committee for Refugees (UNHCR) largest operation ever.

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Every day, thousands of families transit in Kabul. Men, women wearing white and blue burkas, children, olds and sicks together, changing trucks, loading and unloading before they reach their final destination, home, as far as Mazar, Herat or the Bamiyan valley and the Shomalie plain. The UNHCR -United Nation High Committee for Refugees, considers the Afghan refugees return as their biggest operation ever, having to deal with a massive move of over 2 million refugees.

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Every day, thousands of families transit in Kabul. Men, women wearing white and blue burkas, children, olds and sicks together, changing trucks, loading and unloading before they reach their final destination, home, as far as Mazar, Herat or the Bamiyan valley and the Shomalie plain. The UNHCR -United Nation High Committee for Refugees, considers the Afghan refugees return as their biggest operation ever, having to deal with a massive move of over 2 million refugees.

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Hundreds of Afghan refugees returning home are facing reality, as they go through a mine exhibition set there by the UNRCH. The fact that Afghanistan is sow with more than 400 000 mines and unexploded weapons, makes that before draught, hunger and misery, the mines will always be the main danger for the refugees back on Afghanistan hostile soil.

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Mine exhibition At the Poli Checki returning camp

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Thousands of refugees have to stop for a first “welcome aid package”. Trucks loaded with refugees stop by for an hour or two. Men, women and children are expected to visit different tents. Children under 4 get an anti Measles injection -part of a massive vaccination program set by the UN WFP all around Afghanistan.

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Hundreds of Afghan refugees returning home are getting injections as a mass vaccination program organized by the UNRCH. Often children arrive exhausted and sick, after days of travel from the camp in Pakistan.

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Refugees family Identity papers provided by the UNHCR in Pakistan to Afghan refugees returning to Afghanistan.