In May 1992, the communist puppet regime of Najibullah had fallen and the muslim soldiers of the legendary Ahmad Shah Massoud had captured Kabul. After 13 years of war, the future looked better. Afghan refugee and Hezbi-Islami member Gul Rahman loaded his family and his household into a truck to return home from Pakistan to his village in Afghanistan, Shewaki, just south of Kabul. Photographer Rob Huibers from The Netherlands travelled with them. Regretfully the Afghan nightmare was not over at all: the mujaheddeen warlords didn't agree on a new government and started a civil war that ended with the cruel and outragious Islamic dictatorship of the Taliban. The Taliban regime was finished by the USA after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001. Some people think Afghanistan can be rebuilt, now the worlds attention is focused on this isolated and backward country. I really wonder if the Afghans will have the sense to lay down their guns and start working for their future.
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