STATION THREE:
Photojournalism
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Background: The following photographs were taken from Pakistan's Swat District during the time the Taliban occupied regions in Afghanistan. The Taliban presence in Afghanistan can be traced back to the 1970s, but it wasn't until the late 90s and early 00s that the war in Afghanistan began to impact Pakistan, its neighboring country. As the war raged on, fueled ultimately but 9/11 attack on the US, thousands of refugees poured into Pakistan and other surrounding nations, fleeing war zones that were destroying Afghanistan, killing innocent women and children, and leaving the country in ruin. The pictures shown below are taken from a refugee camp in Pakistan's Swat District. For more information about this conflict and Pakistan's Swat District, click here.
Directions: Review the photos and their captions below. Then, write an argument about what 1-2 of these pictures suggests about freedom and/or individual rights.
Homeless
A family internally displaced by military operations in Swat waits to be given a tent at a relief camp.
Escape
The United Nations refugee agency estimates that up to 200,000 people fled Swat in recent days, but forecast a further exodus of nearly 300,000 more.
The Things They Carried
Refugees take to the road with their belongings.
New Home
A crowd of men line up to register at a refugee camp in Mardan, in northwest Pakistan.
Small Comfort
The Internally Displaced scramble for tea rations in a relief camp.
Lines
Women wait for their tea rations.
Night Falls
As refugees continue to stream out of conflict areas, Pakistani Prime Minister Gilani said that the government would summon the military to quell violence in Swat and the Malakand.
TASK:
TASK:
Select 1-2 of the photographs and write an argument about what the picture(s) suggest(s) about freedom and individual rights. Use the captions and evidence from the pictures themselves to support your ideas. Think about the background included above about why these people were occupying the Swat District in the first place.
Select 1-2 of the photographs and write an argument about what the picture(s) suggest(s) about freedom and individual rights. Use the captions and evidence from the pictures themselves to support your ideas. Think about the background included above about why these people were occupying the Swat District in the first place.
*If you finish your task early, click here to learn about how Swat Valley has recovered since the end of the Taliban occupancy.
*If you finish your task early, click here to learn about how Swat Valley has recovered since the end of the Taliban occupancy.
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