Shamshatoo
Shamshatoo (alternative spellings : Shamshatu, Shamshattu ) is a refugee camp about 30 km southeast of Peshawar in the district of Peschawar in the northwestern border province of Pakistan .
It was built in the 1980s because of the Soviet-Afghan War , closed after the withdrawal of the Soviets in 1989 and reopened in 1997 because of the Taliban rule . The refugees from Afghanistan are divided into four sectors according to their ethnicity: Pashtuns , Tajiks , Uzbeks and Hazara . Many were previously in other refugee camps in the Peshawar district, such as Nasir Bagh and Jalozai .
In 2007 there were still over 100,000 refugees in Shamshatoo who were supposed to be controlled by the Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyār and his group Hezb-e Eslāmī .
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- ↑ ZEIT online 45/2001: "He's our guest"
- ↑ United Nations Chronicle 1/2002: The Children of Shamshatoo
- ↑ Newsweek , October 20, 2007: Where the Jihad Lives Now ( Memento of the original from November 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 33 ° 50 ′ N , 71 ° 44 ′ E