In March 1981. Amir and Baba are in the truck with other Afghans on the way to Pakistan. The ride makes Amir sick, and he worries he is embarrassing baba. Because they cannot trust anyone. They left home in the middle of the night. The Rifaq as Amir calls them, have divided society. People turn each other in for money or under threat. This reminds of the time when I lived in my old home town, Sini. In 2006 after more than three years after the war in Iraq. A civil war erupted in the country between Sunni and Shee’a and Al Qaeda was involved too. It was a mess were you do not know your enemies from your friends. In my small home town in the middle northern part of the country where all the population is Sunni, the war was between Al Qaeda and
