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rpl..TI\/P<· arms as they are welcomed back. It is a touching scene and one that reinforces the UN's purpose. :Wi1"h,,,rt the intervention of the UN these people would never be able to leave Afghanistan, cross through Uzl:>ek:ist.m to rebuild their lives. The train has brought with them bicycles, food, blankets, livestock, building materials and whateve the UN gave them in Afghanistan. It is piled deep in the last nine open box cars. But it seems the ice who were charged with the security of the refugees on their way to Tajikistan were actually stealing and their possessions as the refugees watched helplessly from the passenger cars in front. The Uzbek pol bags and threw possessions to their friends waiting at the side of the tracks at a predetermined bend. The Tajiks demand that I photograph the proof of this crime. They hold up slashed bags, empty nd smashed goods. I suddenly feel like I have a purpose and I lose track of Jonathan. I later find him is truck with the doors locked, screaming into the radio at the top of his voice. He is expected, along with er people, to get 310 people fed, housed and organized in just a few days. offer to shift from my photojournalist duties to chip in with the mammoth job of coordinating people, loading trucks of flour, blankets, cooking oil, tarps, sugar and other material and to provide security. In people are running around stealing food and materials. In the converted school house it �so,ml�bc)dv has been stealing 100-pound bales of blankets through a window sealed with four-inch-wide g rebar.