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  • An American NATO soldier stands in the pouring rain protecting Serb civilians from ethnic Albanians who forced them out of their homes Wednesday, June 30, 1999 in Urosevac in Kosovo. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • SPIN BOLDAK,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 4: An Afghan child from the Kuchi nomadic tribe laughs despite the horrible living conditions in an encamptment near Spin Boldak, the border town between Pakistan and southern Afghanistan September 4, 2002.  The UNHCR is trying to relocate tens of thousands of internally displaced people at the same time as an estimated 1.6 million Afghan refugees return to Afghanistan. Ethnic Pashtuns and Kuchi nomads from northern Afghanistan are seeking safety in camps in the south. Numbering up to 120,000,  theys are fleeing the Tajik- and Uzbek-dominated cities of the north out of fear and prefer to live in the dismal camps like Zhare Dasht which is set in the middle of a desert surrounded by mines about 30 kilometers west of Kandahar. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • ZHARE DASHT,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 4:  Afghan Kuchi nomad children that were living in a camp for displaced people around Spin Boldak, near the border of Pakistan and southern Afghanistan, are relocated to the encamptment of Zhare Dasht by the UNHCR September 4, 2002.  As an estimated 1.6 million Afghan refugees return to Afghanistan,  ethnic Pashtuns from northern Afghanistan are seeking safety in   camps in the south. Numbering up to 120,000,  Pashtuns and Kuchis are fleeing the Tajik- and Uzbek-dominated cities of the north out of fear and prefer to live in the dismal camps like Zhare Dasht which is set in the middle of a desert surrounded by mines about 30 kilometers west of Kandahar. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • ZHARE DASHT,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 4: A Pashtun Afghan who was living in a camp for displaced people around Spin Boldak, near the border of Pakistan and southern Afghanistan, covers his face from dust in the new camp where he has been relocated called Zhare Dasht September 4, 2002.  As an estimated 1.6 million Afghan refugees return to Afghanistan,  ethnic Pashtuns from northern Afghanistan are seeking safety in   camps in the south. Numbering up to 120,000,  Pashtuns are fleeing the Tajik- and Uzbek-dominated cities of the north out of fear and prefer to live in the dismal camps like Zhare Dasht which is set in the middle of a desert surrounded by mines about 30 kilometers west of Kandahar. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • ZHARE DASHT,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 4: A Pashtun Afghan who was living in a camp for displaced people around Spin Boldak, near the border of Pakistan and southern Afghanistan, is relocated to the encamptment of Zhare Dasht by the UNHCR September 4, 2002.  As an estimated 1.6 million Afghan refugees return to Afghanistan,  ethnic Pashtuns from northern Afghanistan are seeking safety in   camps in the south. Numbering up to 120,000,  Pashtuns are fleeing the Tajik- and Uzbek-dominated cities of the north out of fear and prefer to live in the dismal camps like Zhare Dasht which is set in the middle of a desert surrounded by mines about 30 kilometers west of Kandahar. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • ZHARE DASHT,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 4: A Pashtun Afghan baby who was living in a camp for displaced people around Spin Boldak, near the border of Pakistan and southern Afghanistan, sits in an empty tent after her family was relocated to Zhare Dasht by the UNHCR September 4, 2002.  As an estimated 1.6 million Afghan refugees return to Afghanistan,  ethnic Pashtuns from northern Afghanistan are seeking safety in   camps in the south. Numbering up to 120,000,  Pashtuns are fleeing the Tajik- and Uzbek-dominated cities of the north out of fear and prefer to live in the dismal camps like Zhare Dasht which is set in the middle of a desert surrounded by mines about 30 kilometers west of Kandahar. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • ZHARE DASHT,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 4:  Afghans that were living in a camp for displaced people around Spin Boldak, near the border of Pakistan and southern Afghanistan, are relocated to the encamptment of Zhare Dasht by the UNHCR September 4, 2002.  As an estimated 1.6 million Afghan refugees return to Afghanistan,  ethnic Pashtuns from northern Afghanistan are seeking safety in   camps in the south. Numbering up to 120,000,  Pashtuns and Kuchis are fleeing the Tajik- and Uzbek-dominated cities of the north out of fear and prefer to live in the dismal camps like Zhare Dasht which is set in the middle of a desert surrounded by mines about 30 kilometers west of Kandahar. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • ZHARE DASHT,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 3: Afghan children  play with their family's one sheep that will be slaughtered  to earn  money (about $3) as they struggle to survive in the Zhare Dasht camp, 30 kilometers from Kandahar after they were relocated September 3, 2002.  As an estimated 1.6 million Afghan refugees return to Afghanistan,  ethnic Pashtuns from northern Afghanistan are seeking safety in refugee camps in the south. Numbering up to 120,000,  Pashtuns are fleeing the Tajik- and Uzbek-dominated cities of the north out of fear and prefer to live in the dismal camps like Zhare Dasht which is set in the middle of a desert about 30 kilometers west of Kandahar. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • ZHARE DASHT,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 3: An Afghan child who was living in a camp around Spin Boldak, near the border of Pakistan and southern Afghanistan, looks out of her new home after she was relocated to the desolate, dusty encamptment of Zhare Dasht by the UNHCR September 3, 2002.  As an estimated 1.6 million Afghan refugees return to Afghanistan,  ethnic Pashtuns from northern Afghanistan are seeking safety in refugee camps in the south. Numbering up to 120,000,  Pashtuns are fleeing the Tajik- and Uzbek-dominated cities of the north out of fear and prefer to live in the dismal camps like Zhare Dasht which is set in the middle of a desert about 30 kilometers west of Kandahar. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • ZHARE DASHT,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 3: Afghans, mainly Pashtuns and Kuchi nomads who were living in camps around Spin Boldak, near the border of Pakistan and southern Afghanistan, are relocated to the desolate, dusty encamptment of Zhare Dasht by the UNHCR September 3, 2002.  As an estimated 1.6 million Afghan refugees return to Afghanistan,  ethnic Pashtuns from northern Afghanistan are seeking safety in refugee camps in the south. Numbering up to 120,000,  Pashtuns are fleeing the Tajik- and Uzbek-dominated cities of the north out of fear and prefer to live in the dismal camps like Zhare Dasht which is set in the middle of a desert about 30 kilometers west of Kandahar. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • ZHARE DASHT,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 3: Afghans, mainly Pashtuns and Kuchi nomads who were living in camps around Spin Boldak, near the border of Pakistan and southern Afghanistan, are relocated to the desolate, dusty encamptment of Zhare Dasht by the UNHCR September 3, 2002.  As an estimated 1.6 million Afghan refugees return to Afghanistan,  ethnic Pashtuns from northern Afghanistan are seeking safety in refugee camps in the south. Numbering up to 120,000,  they are fleeing the Tajik- and Uzbek-dominated cities of the north out of fear and prefer to live in the dismal camps like Zhare Dasht which is set in the middle of a desert about 30 kilometers west of Kandahar. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • ZHARE DASHT,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 3: An Afghan Kuchi nomad girl who was living in camps around Spin Boldak, near the border of Pakistan and southern Afghanistan, relaxes after a grueling day of being relocated to the desolate, dusty encamptment of Zhare Dasht by the UNHCR September 3, 2002.  As an estimated 1.6 million Afghan refugees return to Afghanistan,  ethnic Pashtuns and Kuchi Nomads from northern Afghanistan are seeking safety in refugee camps in the south. Numbering up to 120,000,  they are fleeing the Tajik- and Uzbek-dominated cities of the north out of fear and prefer to live in a dismal camp  like Zhare Dasht which is set in the middle of a desert about 30 kilometers west of Kandahar. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • ZHARE DASHT,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 3: Afghans, mainly Pashtuns and Kuchi nomads who were living in camps around Spin Boldak, near the border of Pakistan and southern Afghanistan, are relocated to the desolate, dusty encamptment of Zhare Dasht by the UNHCR September 3, 2002.  As an estimated 1.6 million Afghan refugees return to Afghanistan,  ethnic Pashtuns from northern Afghanistan are seeking safety in refugee camps in the south. Numbering up to 120,000,  Pashtuns are fleeing the Tajik- and Uzbek-dominated cities of the north out of fear and prefer to live in the dismal camps like Zhare Dasht which is set in the middle of a desert about 30 kilometers west of Kandahar. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KANDAHAR,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 3: The stunning but desolate and dusty province of Kandahar is shown from an aerial photograph September 3, 2002 in Afghanistan.  As an estimated 1.6 million Afghan refugees return to Afghanistan,  ethnic Pashtuns from northern Afghanistan are seeking safety in refugee camps in this region. Numbering up to 120,000,  Pashtuns are fleeing the Tajik- and Uzbek-dominated cities of the north out of fear and prefer to live in the dismal camps like Zhare Dasht which is set in the middle of a desert about 30 kilometers west of Kandahar. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • ZHARE DASHT,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 4:  Afghans that were living in a camp for displaced people around Spin Boldak, near the border of Pakistan and southern Afghanistan, are relocated to the encamptment of Zhare Dasht by the UNHCR September 4, 2002.  As an estimated 1.6 million Afghan refugees return to Afghanistan,  ethnic Pashtuns from northern Afghanistan are seeking safety in   camps in the south. Numbering up to 120,000,  Pashtuns and Kuchis are fleeing the Tajik- and Uzbek-dominated cities of the north out of fear and prefer to live in the dismal camps like Zhare Dasht which is set in the middle of a desert surrounded by mines about 30 kilometers west of Kandahar. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • ZHARE DASHT,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 3: Afghans, mainly Pashtuns and Kuchi nomads who were living in camps around Spin Boldak, near the border of Pakistan and southern Afghanistan, are relocated to the desolate, dusty encamptment of Zhare Dasht by the UNHCR September 3, 2002.  As an estimated 1.6 million Afghan refugees return to Afghanistan,  ethnic Pashtuns from northern Afghanistan are seeking safety in refugee camps in the south. Numbering up to 120,000,  Pashtuns are fleeing the Tajik- and Uzbek-dominated cities of the north out of fear and prefer to live in the dismal camps like Zhare Dasht which is set in the middle of a desert about 30 kilometers west of Kandahar. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • ZHARE DASHT,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 3:  Pashtun Afghans who were living in camps around Spin Boldak, near the border of Pakistan and southern Afghanistan, are relocated to the desolate, dusty encamptment of Zhare Dasht by the UNHCR September 3, 2002 and wait for food rations to be handed out.  As an estimated 1.6 million Afghan refugees return to Afghanistan,  ethnic Pashtuns from northern Afghanistan are seeking safety in refugee camps in the south. Numbering up to 120,000, they are fleeing the Tajik- and Uzbek-dominated cities of the north out of fear and prefer to live in the dismal camps like Zhare Dasht which is set in the middle of a desert about 30 kilometers west of Kandahar. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KANDAHAR,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT.6 :  Afghan children fly kites near a cemetery where Taliban are buried September 6, 2002 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The city remains tense afterKandahar Governor Gul Agha Sherzai was shot during an apparent assassination attempt on President Hamid Karzai yesterday evening. .(Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KANDAHAR,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT.6 : Afghan soldiers patrol the city near the Governor's house the day after   an assassination attempt was made on President Hamid Karzai, September 6, 2002 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Governor Gul Agha Sherzai was shot and wounded, not long after 15 people were killed and many others were wounded in blasts in Kabul.. .(Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KANDAHAR,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT.6 : Afghan soldiers guard the Governor's house as he meets with tribal elders after he was wounded yesterday during an assassination attempt on President Hamid Karzai, September 6, 2002 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Governor Gul Agha Sherzai was shot and wounded, not long after 15 people were killed and many others were wounded in blasts in Kabul.. .(Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KANDAHAR,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT.6 :  Afghan children fly kites near a cemetery where Taliban are buried September 6, 2002 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The city remains tense afterKandahar Governor Gul Agha Sherzai was shot during an apparent assassination attempt on President Hamid Karzai yesterday evening. .(Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KANDAHAR,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT.6 : An Afghan woman walks next to the Governor's house September 6, 2002 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The city remains tense after Kandahar Governor Gul Agha Sherzai was shot during an apparent assassination attempt on President Hamid Karzai yesterday evening. .(Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KANDAHAR,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT.6 : An Afghan man prays near a cemetery where Taliban are buried September 6, 2002 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The city remains tense afterKandahar Governor Gul Agha Sherzai was shot during an apparent assassination attempt on President Hamid Karzai yesterday evening. .(Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KANDAHAR,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT.6 : Afghan soldiers guard the Governor's house as he meets with tribal elders after he was wounded yesterday during an assassination attempt on President Hamid Karzai, September 6, 2002 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Governor Gul Agha Sherzai was shot and wounded, not long after 15 people were killed and many others were wounded in blasts in Kabul.. .(Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • GERESHK,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 4: Children watch as a female Afghan inoculator administers the polio vaccination to the child of an Afghan woman  on the last day of a three-day nation wide immunisation campaign September 5, 2002 near Gereshk, Afghanistan.  The latest campaign targeted 5.9 million children under the age of five and teams of vaccinators went from village to village to ensure that all children in that age bracket were immunised. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • GERESHK,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 4: An Afghan man with a gun strapped to his back watches as UNICEF workers monitoring the last day of a three-day nation wide immunisation campaign speak to villagers September 5, 2002 near Gereshk, Afghanistan.  The latest campaign targeted 5.9 million children under the age of five and teams of vaccinators went from village to village to ensure that all children in that age bracket were immunised. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • GERESHK,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 4: An Afghan child suffering from malnutrition is shown to UNICEF health workers administering the polio vaccination on the last day of a three-day nation wide immunisation campaign September 5, 2002 near Gereshk, Afghanistan.  The latest campaign targeted 5.9 million children under the age of five and teams of vaccinators went from village to village to ensure that all children in that age bracket were immunised. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • GERESHK,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 4: A female Afghan inoculator administers the polio vaccination to the child of an Afghan woman  on the last day of a three-day nation wide immunisation campaign September 5, 2002 near Gereshk, Afghanistan.  The latest campaign targeted 5.9 million children under the age of five and teams of vaccinators went from village to village to ensure that all children in that age bracket were immunised. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • An Indian baby displaced by the fighting along the Line of Control between Pakistan and India sleeps inside a police station in Samba in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, May 21, 2002. Fears of another war between India and Pakistan grow as a moderate Kashmiri leader, Abdul Gane Lone was shot by unidendified gunmen in Srinagar, India. Lone was one of the leaders of the All Party Hurriyat Conference, a group of political and religious parties that advocate Muslim-majority Kashmir's separation from predominantly Hindu India.
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  • KANDAHAR,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT.6 :  Afghan children pump water near a cemetery where Taliban are buried September 6, 2002 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The city remains tense afterKandahar Governor Gul Agha Sherzai was shot during an apparent assassination attempt on President Hamid Karzai yesterday evening. .(Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KANDAHAR,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT.6 :  Afghans look at balloons near the old Governor's mansion September 6, 2002 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The city remains tense after Kandahar Governor Gul Agha Sherzai was shot during an apparent assassination attempt on President Hamid Karzai yesterday evening. .(Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • GERESHK,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 4: An Afghan man with a gun strapped to his back watches as UNICEF workers monitoring the last day of a three-day nation wide immunisation campaign speak to villagers September 5, 2002 near Gereshk, Afghanistan.  The latest campaign targeted 5.9 million children under the age of five and teams of vaccinators went from village to village to ensure that all children in that age bracket were immunised. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • GERESHK,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 4: A female Afghan inoculator administers the polio vaccination to the child of an internally displaced Afghan women from the Kuchi tribe on the last day of a three-day nation wide immunization campaign September 5, 2002 near Gereshk, Afghanistan.  The latest campaign targeted 5.9 million children under the age of five and teams of vaccinators went from village to village to ensure that all children in that age bracket were immunized. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • a coffee monument adorns one of the few paved roads in Jimma, (once the capital of the region known as Kaffa) in Ethiopia. Jimma is beleived to be the original birthplace of coffee.  Ethiopia boasts the most ancient and compelling traditions for coffee consumption that the world has ever seen. Coffee permeates the cultural fabric of Ethiopian life and it unites the country. It binds the many different ethnic groups together, Christian or Muslim, rich or poor. An elaborate extension to Ethiopia's warm sense of hospitality, the coffee ceremony is a daily social ritual to honour the importance of the bean, and strengthen human bonds.
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  • The village Choche, in Jimma, (once the capital of the region known as Kaffa)  is beleived to be the original birthplace of coffee. Legend says that  a goat herder named Khalad noticed his goats "dancing" after eating the red cherries and he took the cherries to a local monastery. The monks proclaimed it must be the work of the devil and threw the beans into a fire but soon became excited by the lovely aroma the roasting beans gave off. They then decided it might be nice to try consuming the beans and this is how coffee began.  Ethiopia boasts the most ancient and compelling traditions for coffee consumption that the world has ever seen. Coffee permeates the cultural fabric of Ethiopian life and it unites the country. It binds the many different ethnic groups together, Christian or Muslim, rich or poor. An elaborate extension to Ethiopia's warm sense of hospitality, the coffee ceremony is a daily social ritual to honour the importance of the bean, and strengthen human bonds.
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  • Awol Abagojam, his son Isaac and his neighbor Ramla and her daughter Siam pick cherries from what is beleived to be the original ancestral coffee tree in the village Choche, in Jimma, (once the capital of the region known as Kaffa) .  Coffee permeates the cultural fabric of Ethiopian life and it unites the country. It binds the many different ethnic groups together, Christian or Muslim, rich or poor. An elaborate extension to Ethiopia's warm sense of hospitality, the coffee ceremony is a daily social ritual to honour the importance of the bean, and strengthen human bonds.
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  • Ramla (wearing black headscarf) helps a neighbor with her donkey loaded with coffeee cherries in the village of Choche. Choche is beleived to be the original ancestral birthplace of coffee in the region of Jimma, Ethiopia (Jimma was once the capital of the region known as Kaffa) .     Coffee permeates the cultural fabric of Ethiopian life and it unites the country. It binds the many different ethnic groups together, Christian or Muslim, rich or poor. An elaborate extension to Ethiopia's warm sense of hospitality, the coffee ceremony is a daily social ritual to honour the importance of the bean, and strengthen human bonds.
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  • An ethnic Albanian refugee from Kosovo sits in a bus waiting to be transported to the Brazda camp near Skopje, Macedonia, Thursday, April 22, 1999.   (Photo By Ami Vitale)
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  • Ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo wait for relatives to arrive at the Stenkovec camp near Skopje,  Macedonia, Monday April 12, 1999. Many more refugees flooded the camp today thinking that if they left host families and registered here, they would be able to leave the country. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo wait to receive food at a camp set up by French and English military from NATO near Skopje, Macedonia Wednesday, April 7, 1999. The camp has helped to alleviate the crisis at the border camp in Blace where hundreds of people died.  (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • The village Choche, in Jimma, (once the capital of the region known as Kaffa)  is beleived to be the original birthplace of coffee. Legend says that  a goat herder named Khalad noticed his goats "dancing" after eating the red cherries and he took the cherries to a local monastery. The monks proclaimed it must be the work of the devil and threw the beans into a fire but soon became excited by the lovely aroma the roasting beans gave off. They then decided it might be nice to try consuming the beans and this is how coffee began.  Ethiopia boasts the most ancient and compelling traditions for coffee consumption that the world has ever seen. Coffee permeates the cultural fabric of Ethiopian life and it unites the country. It binds the many different ethnic groups together, Christian or Muslim, rich or poor. An elaborate extension to Ethiopia's warm sense of hospitality, the coffee ceremony is a daily social ritual to honour the importance of the bean, and strengthen human bonds.
    ETH_0174.jpg
  • Awol Abagojam and his son Isaac pick cherries from what is beleived to be the original ancestral coffee tree in the village Choche, in Jimma, (once the capital of the region known as Kaffa) . Legend says that  a goat herder named Khalad noticed his goats "dancing" after eating the red cherries and he took the cherries to a local monastery. The monks proclaimed it must be the work of the devil and threw the beans into a fire but soon became excited by the lovely aroma the roasting beans gave off. They then decided it might be nice to try consuming the beans and this is how coffee began.  Ethiopia boasts the most ancient and compelling traditions for coffee consumption that the world has ever seen. Coffee permeates the cultural fabric of Ethiopian life and it unites the country. It binds the many different ethnic groups together, Christian or Muslim, rich or poor. An elaborate extension to Ethiopia's warm sense of hospitality, the coffee ceremony is a daily social ritual to honour the importance of the bean, and strengthen human bonds.
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  • Ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo rush to get goods from the Italian Nato forces in the Stenkovec camo near Skopje, Macedonia, April 10, 1999.  (Photo By Ami Vitale)
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  • An ethnic Albanian watches American troops patrol through her village near Kololec where 2 Serbs were allegedly shot Monday, August 2, 1999 in Kosovo. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • John Holmstrom, 21, from Calumet, Michigan treats ethnic Albanian Isuf Rrahmani, 61, after he was attacked by angry Serbians who were fleeing their village of Zegra in Kosovo Thursday, June 24, 1999. (photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo rush to get goods from the Italian Nato forces in the Stenkovec camo near Skopje, Macedonia, April 10, 1999.  (Photo By Ami Vitale)
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  • A child holds a mushroom in a village in Rwanda in 2004, ten years after the Rwandan genocide when at least 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and thousands of moderate Hutus in Rwanda were killed.  Despite intelligence provided before the killing began, and international news media coverage of the true scale of violence as the genocide unfolded, most first-world countries including France, Belgium and the United States declined to intervene or speak out against the planned massacres.
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