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“I was walking through the [Polish] forests of my grandmother’s tales, a land where every field hides a grave, where millions of people have been deported or killed in the 20th century.”
— Monika BulajMonika Bulaj: The hidden light of Afghanistan
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“I have been walking and traveling, by horses, by yak, by truck, by hitchhiking, from Iran’s border to the bottom, to the edge of the Wakhan Corridor. And in this way I could find ‘noor,’ the hidden light of Afghanistan.”
— Monika BulajMonika Bulaj: The hidden light of Afghanistan
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“My aim is to give a voice to the silent people, to show the hidden lights behind the curtain of the great game, the small worlds ignored by the media and the prophets of a global conflict.”
— Monika BulajMonika Bulaj: The hidden light of Afghanistan
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“One day, I crossed the bridge over the Oxus River. I was alone on foot. And the Afghan soldier was so surprised to see me that he forgot to stamp my passport. But he gave me a cup of tea.”
— Monika BulajMonika Bulaj: The hidden light of Afghanistan
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“What do we know about the country [Afghanistan] and the people that we pretend to protect, about the villages where the only one medicine to kill the pain and to stop the hunger is opium?”
— Monika BulajMonika Bulaj: The hidden light of Afghanistan
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