Person in an event - Assignment Example

47). It was a chilled winter, so cold that it seems like we were about to freeze if we went outside. She was sitting down in chair by her window, reminiscing about the old life that she had in Afghanistan. “War is terrible for everyone, you know” she said, without looking at me. She stared at the snow as if she wants to melt the snow with the fierce fire in her heart. Looking at her I could tell that she missed her hometown, but at the same time despise it for the fact that a place she once loved so much gave her such a harsh reality.

I joined her by pulling a chair next to her. Together, we looked outside the window and I could tell that her heart was as cold as the snow outside. She slowly opened up and talked about her childhood and how happy she used to be in Afghanistan. It seemed like a distant memory now, as it has been decades since she moved to New York. But, her memory about her hometown was still vivid. The occupation of Afghanistan by the Taliban was a brutal reality for the people. They destroyed everything that was dear to their life and they had to run away from a place that they loved so much, a place they called home.

“With the aid of the Pakistani army, the Taliban swept across most of the exhausted country promising a restoration of order and finally capturing Kabul in September 1996” (Gasper). I give her the name Grace, as she seemed like a graceful person. After pausing for some time, she looked at me and choked on her words, she said “I really could never understand the need for war, can’t they see that they have dislocated everyone?” I could not reply her back as I also could not understand the need to fight with each other.

What is war? It is a useless method which puts everyone in misery. War is a coward’s game. When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, it was a welcomed at first by many people. But, after sometime, it was realized that the Taliban were determined to impose the strictest Islam law on the people. The women were oppressed and abused. Grace said that once they went to a market with her father and brother and there they saw women being trashed by the Taliban men as the women were accused of venturing outside the house without a male escort.

One of the women was bleeding profusely, but no one dared came to their rescue. Such was the harsh reality for many women and unfortunately they could do nothing about it. It was the helplessness that I felt for so long under the regime that made me sank to a great depression she added. When Afghanistan fell in the hands of mujahideen, many groups were not happy with the distribution of power. Hekmatyar in particular was dissatisfied with the new rule. He had a huge stock of U.S supplied weapons and he began his assault of Kabul with artillery and rocket.

This struggle of power lasted for almost three years and many thousands of Afghan people were killed by their own people. "The barrage.killed more than 10,000 Afghans [drove] hundreds of thousands into squalid refugee camps, created political chaos, and blocked millions of exiles from returning" (Gasper). I have gone through the sufferings and chaos caused by the Taliban people in Afghanistan through many of my researches. After interviewing many people, I could tell that they were tired of the war in their country and many were too sentimental to talk about it as they had