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CHAPTER 37: Mariam, September 1996

Summary

Two and a half years after trying to escape, Mariam awakes on the morning of September 27, 1996 to the sounds of shouting and whistling, firecrackers and music. She shouts over her shoulders as she looks out the window, “The Taliban are here.”

Mariam had first heard of the Taliban two years before. Rasheed had told them that this group had overthrown the warlords in Kandahar and taken over the city. They were a guerilla force made of Pashtun men whose families had fled to Pakistan during the war against the Soviets. Most had been raised and some even born in the refugee camps where they were schooled in Shari’a by mullahs. Their leader was a mysterious, illtiterate, one-eyed recluse named Mullah Omar. Rasheed tells them all these things it’s as if he is talking to the walls or someone who isn’t there. He no longer..........

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The coming of the Taliban at first seems like salvation for a country weary of war, but soon it becomes apparent that their........


CHAPTER 38: Laila

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“Laila is glad when the Taliban goes to work that Babi wasn’t around to witness it. It would have crippled him.” Museums are smashed and pre-Islamic statues are broken. Paintings are ripped from the walls and shredded. Books, except the Koran are piled up and burned. The Beard Patrol is everywhere in their red trucks looking for anyone violating their.........

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What the Taliban does to the city is horrible to watch for everyone except Rasheed who ..........


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