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what did it mean for you personally like when the Taliban took over how did your
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life change or did it change at all initially no like one from a childhood perspective you're not really aware of
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your bigger surroundings what's happening in your country right when the Taliban took over the emerged in
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Afghanistan in the early '90s and then it was by the mid90s '95 96 is when they
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were pretty much taking full control of the country what we were hearing and eventually what we were kind of really
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seeing was this kind of complete persecution against certain members of the Afghan Community particularly our
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community we call ourselves the hazard people of Afghanistan when the Taliban took over in their quest to rebuild the
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country in the way that they wanted to there was no room for anyone who didn't
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fit the bill for what they wanted displacement from their lands to actual Slaughters that happened in the major
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cities and we knew that perhaps at some point they might come in and rolling into our village and so that was the
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turning point of Our Lives this fear that set in there were fewel kids in school few livestock grazing the lands
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there was obviously the market activity completely closed down and all the bazaars life really kind of took on a
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dark turn