The social history of Afghanistan

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Reports of ethnic killing by the Taliban in Afghanistan
Women''s Alliance for Peace and Human Rights in Afghanistan (WAPHA), 2 September 1998. The Taliban's detention, torture, and killing of the ethnic groups in northern Afghanistan. The Hazara are singled out by the Taliban and men, women, and children are either placed in camps, killed, imprisoned, or they have disappeared.
Pol-e-Charkhi prison of Afghanistan
By Maqsood Ghaz, 7 April 2000. Interview by prison worker provides information regarding the situation at the prison. A lot of prisoners were arrested from streets during the first Taliban's attack on the northern regions and were transferred to the Pol-e-Charkhi Prison. After almost three years they still face an unknown fate, and many of them have become mentally and physically ill.
Afghans Make Grueling Trek Home
By Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 18 June 2000. During the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s and the bloody internal conflict that followed, more than 6 million refugees fled to Pakistan and Iran. Many have since returned home. But at least 2.6 million remain in the two countries, making them one of the largest long-term refugee populations in the world.
The littlest victims
Newsweek Web Exclusive, 5 January 2002. Thousands of Afghan children will not survive The winter's death toll. After more than 20 years of war and three years of drought, they are malnourished and at risk from land mines and unexploded bombs. Many have spent their entire lives in refugee camps; the infant mortality rate is one of the highest in the world.