Taliban House
Originally uploaded by gaikokujinkyofusho
I'm not sure how obvious it is but this is an outhouse, one of the less sanitary outhouses in Afghanistan I might add and was the only place to poop other than outside (which many many people did, you literally had to watch where you stepped if you chose to shortcut behind a rock or house because it was very likely someone saw that same spot as a private place to poop).
We had arrived at this site in the evening so we didn't see the writing on the outhouse before but while walking by the next day we saw it "Taliban House" written on the side of the outhouse. Now I have no idea if a foreigner wrote it (likely) or an Afghan wrote it (possible, there are plenty of Afghans that know alittle English) but I was amused. The Taliban particularly brutalized the people in this region (the Hazara) so there is no love for the Taliban here (which makes this region a particularly safe place for foreigners).
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