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Article: Afghan government cracks down on beggars.(Afghanistan)
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- June 17, 2005
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Byline: Kim Barker
KABUL, Afghanistan _ The men grab the woman in the dirty blue burqa and pull her toward them, but she falls to the ground and starts to scream. "For God's sake, leave me alone," she says, sobbing.
But these men have no patience. They yank her toward their bus, ripping her burqa. She is dumped on a seat inside, and the bus starts moving again, stopping here for an old man, there for a blind man and his little sister. The bus picks up a woman in a wheelchair, then a boy with a white bandage on his forehead.
Many passengers start to cry. Nobody wants to ride this bus. They might look like kidnap victims, but they are not. This ...