Trapped

Christopher Anderson

VII / The New York Times Magazine

Trapped-Precious Fire Fire is all important in the village. They burn what few twigs they have saved for warmth. Thousands of Hazara people are trapped high in the Mushkel-Hal mountains in the Abdulgan region of northern Afghanistan. In the village of Bini Gaw, as well as the other some 60 villages in the region, half the population fled in search of food after the fall of the Taliban. The rest were too weak to make the journey. Half of them had already died of starvation by December of 2001.

Christopher Anderson, "Trapped," in POYi Archive, Item #33509, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/33509 (accessed May 5, 2024).