BESHUD, Afghanistan — The truck wound its way through mountain passes in the pre-dawn darkness, stacked high with the trappings of a refugee life pieced together over 30 years. The Shah family had been forced out of the haven in Pakistan that their patriarch had found them during the last war, against the Soviets. The women and children, nearly two dozen all together, either rode on the truck’s top or stuffed themselves among the belongings on its back. Among them was a 6-year-old boy named Bilal, who held tight to a small cage. Many of them were forcibly repatriated, but others, like the Shahs, were fed up with being targeted for abuse by the police.

Source: New York Times May 06, 2018 09:00 UTC