Yesterday’s bakery bunch was a bunch of the same kids that are in this story about kids using education as a way out. Well, not the exact same kids, but the same ethnic group, the Hazaras.
I’m not intentionally digging up good news stories, but there is some good news here, most of it, ironically, in no way connected with US government efforts on the grand scale, but in these small scale enterprises started by a few people.
Interestingly enough, the Hazara suffered under the Taliban, and they’re still a poor minority in this country, but they’ve returned after the internal conflicts of the 1990’s due to the US invasion in 2001 that overthrew the Taliban, who were keenly interested in maintaining the Hazaras as second-class citizens.
They’re still poor as dirt on the whole, but they’re gaining ground through the educational opportunities that are available in places like Kabul and even in other Hazara provinces that are relatively calm with no real insurgency.
Like Iraq’s Kurds, this is a motivated minority that wants to work with the government and gets along well with the US. Here’s hoping this current surge makes this a better place for them, as well.
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