Violence reminds returning Afghans why they left

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SP300673.htm

<snip>"We heard on the radio and television that peace and stability had returned to Afghanistan... but now we see fighting, killing, robbery and road blocks," Mohammad Ali told Reuters at a transit camp administered by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) a few kilometres outside the city of Herat. snip

Within the camp there are sickness and diarrhoea, no medicine, and food and water are in short supply, says Ghulam Rabbani, a UNHCR official on the spot.

The womenfolk have tied their headscarfs to sticks, and the makeshift canopies of billowing black cotton are the only protection they have from the baking sun and stinging wind.

Their faces caked in dust, the five daughters of Mohammad Ali and his wife Lila curse their parents' decision to leave Iran and go home to Afghanistan.

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1. but but but.................

They have a team at the Olympics! Doesn't that mean that everything is hunky-dory now?