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