Kyrgyz Nomads Stranded in the Isolated Mountain Range | SLICE 

I'm from Hunza, Pakistan. Wakhan Corridor shares a border with Hunza. These poor people were not trapped because of China, Pakistan and Tajikistan , Rather they have been trapped since 1800 because of British Empire & Tsarist Russia. They Divided Badakshan between Afghanistan and Tsarist Russia in order to create a buffer zone between Russia and British Empire of India.People in South and central Asia are still suffering from colonial divisions even after 200 years. This Wakhan Corridor stuff is one of the many dark legacies of British Colonial policies. Must Read this article for some knowledge before making a documentary "The ‘Great Game’ in the Pamirs and the Hindu-Kush: The British Conquest of Hunza and Nagar", You guys make Unions like EU where you can travel and do business comfortably but for us you made buffer zones and barriors so that we remain poor and dependent

They don't say "buying" women; but the English text says so. Also, the sister is getting married to a man from the bride's family; don't know why the speaker keeps saying she's being traded. They all need to get married. At one point the speaker says judgmentally that after her marriage, the sister is leaving to help her husvand's family. It will be her own family. What is she supposed to do? Stay home? They all get married and move on with life. Documentaries didn't used to be so judgmental in the past.

Love Kyrgyz people from Turkey!

i am hazara, I have met many kazakhs and krygyz think I am kazakh or krygyz and I too have grandparents that live around the base of a high altitude mountains in the "countryside" , I would say when you're in Afghanistan, What's for dinner isn't expected like it is in modern countries, you will be thinking a lot "where is this next meal gonna come from". The summer is hot dry, you can count the number of rainy days in a year on your hand, the winter is harsh and snowy and you can look at vast plains with minimal homes in sight, your neighbors are few and far between with a very low population density, its easy to feel like its just your family there. I would also like to add that their persian language sounds identical to the hazara accent

Sad live without prospects. I am not getting why Kyrgyzstan is not supporting them? Mongolia used to offer scholarships (the government, private or by a university itself) to Afgan's hazaras, especially girls, now this program has been stopped few years though. I remember often seeing strangely dressed girls who were mostly by themselves, I guess the free-spirited metropolitan lifestyle was not that easy for them to adjust to.

Wow this one is sad. By now are they even still around? I know the documentary is old, the conditions there are so harsh. It's amazing to think a community can live so isolated in such an extreme place for a hundred years or more.

May God bless them with everything they need, I hope their people survive. What strong beautiful people

Pretty awesome documentary, amazing tough people, amazing scenery, but damn that is sad. Al this drug addiction and basically surviving only. Hope things get better for them ❤️

Beautiful place and beautiful people

They can't live like this....They must migrat to Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 or Kazakhstan 🇰🇿.... The Afghanistan 🇦🇫gevrment ( Taliban ) must give the permtion to leave....... I'm Ethiopian🇪🇹

Wow, and we think our lives are difficult!

Harsh life,to say the least!These have to be some of the toughest Humans on the planet!

No one can understand the pain of being uzbek , hazara ,Turkmen and Kyrgyz in afghanistan 💔😭

Incredible! ❤ 🇲🇳

OMG that's no way to live I wouldn't last a hour I have great respect and admiration for those people 🙏💕

Imagine when they have a toothache, or appendicitis with no doctor nearby..

omg these kids are more skillful and brave heart than i'm at the age of 20😂😢

Nice video thanks

An excellent documentary! Do these Kyrgyz nomads speak Tajik, or they simply took the word for 'daughter' from Tajik (an Indo-European language, hence the similarity with the English word), as we can hear "'duhtar"? Kyrgyz is a Turkic language, and it would be strange not to use their own terms for kinship.

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Isn’t this a reupload?

they claim the Kyrgyz "struggle to survive", but this way of life seems to be working pretty great for them.

Its way too cold for most us. Never mind the long walk with cattle thats worth this or that.

whats this in the beginning, i never saw someone fishing with throwing stones!!! i saw all kind of fishing, survival techniques etc, why the hell wouldnt you report more on that? the movie just kept on as if it wasnt ultimately rare. damn this reporter

درود به همه ی فارسی زبانان💚💚

The government should be dropping boxes of food, and other goods for them. They have billions, and are cruel.) Prayer for the kids.

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These men are well spoken and sounded educated. They are aware of the world even if they can't reach it.

Ничего нет,а опиум где то находят 😮

Tajikistan is in the way, but I do not see why they wouldn't be allowed to relocate to Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzistan should take them in their country

Pamir kırgız türkleri

We will bring these people to their own independent country in 10 year! I am sure for this

life of this people become more bad whean Afghanistan and chaina make highway betwean Afghanistan and chaina because they are better away from tgis world life of them heard but beautiful life in nowadays technology more bad than any other time

nah bro these kyrgyz need to stop smoking and stuff if they want a better health

Now Taliban start road to this people and make one hospital, school

Being like that to their own daughters, I have a hard time feeling too bad for them

Wow trade women like sheep or Cows what is wrong with these men, Don't the fathers love their daughters

Engagement with the world and life to its fullest

Eurocentric orientalist narrative ...😢

Barmanu country.

"aziz" means "penis" in Navajo. 😂

The Kyrgyz in Afghan actually look more Asian than the Kyrgyz in Kyrgyzstan. The ones in Kyrgyzstan just look mixed with Persians.

WHY THEY BURN DA SHEEP LIKE DAT ?

a wife for a yak

This is Hazara no kyrgyz

Кудай колдосун,неге кыргызга келууну каалашпайэт десе нашаа чегип кенен жашашат турбайбыэ.тажик тилин да укмуш суйлошот экен да

Those tribe are budist i think before by the death forces thy,r convarted muslim i think

Пусть уезжают в киргизию.

I just came back from a trip to Kyrgyzstan and came across their distant nomadic relatives in the land. It is incredible to imagine how the same people can have so different lives. The Kygyzstan nomads are able to roam freely in the lands and are not confined to such an extreme altitude.

Greetings from Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬

This is one of the most fascinating documentarys I`ve ever seen. I often think about the people in it and come back ro rewatch it from time to time. It`s like a deep echo in my soul.

Very strong and impressive folks. God bless such beautiful people. The typical American would die in 24 hours.

I’m Kyrgyz from Kyrgyzstan and wanna thank the authors for incredible work could imagine how you did this shots in this cold. However what I understand from it that they survive not live especially winter I know our government did some programs to relocate some families but as our economy and situation in Afghanistan make it much difficult. I could understand maybe half of their dialect it’s sound mix of Turkic and Persian languages but some speak pure north dialect of Kyrgyzstan so I can understand 100% only one thing I wanna mention form people who criticise them that change your perspective don’t expect human rights as other world even some civilised countries still live even in worth conditions. The way they choose live this the will of people who don’t want to live under oppression , reach for the freedom and they call themselves Kyrgyz make me proud. I wish they will at least stabilise their life being get international aid and if they decide to move to Kyrgyzstan hope our government will support them. P.S the traditional clothes stunning absolutely gorgeous red colour ohh that beautiful

I love the part how he can't imagine places with no shepherds,lol. And his uncle tells him, they watch their herds on the computer.

In 1982, 1150 Pamirid Kyrgyz asked for internation help and were relocated to southeast Turkey. Their entire community lives in a village called Ulupamir where only Kyrgyz live. I wish these Kyrgyz would also be able to come or go to Kyrgyzistan. There is no future for them in Afghanistan.

Huge round of applause for louis and taimani films for an amazing journey.

I'm from Kabul, Afghanistan. I'm proud of the diversity of our nation, but at the same time, I am ashamed and sad that our people still live in such a hard condition. I hope we build a big highway through the Wakhan Corridor to prepare a better life for our Kyrgyz compatriots. We should work to bring new opportunities including education, tourism, agriculture, and development to this region. Love all my countrymen. Be safe wherever you are.

I hope Turkeye or Kyrgyzstan will come to help them.

Love from Kyrgyz Republic 🇰🇬❤️

Fascinating documentary. Those poor folks always worry about the fortunes in life.

Such beautiful land ❤

Türkiye must help this people!!

I want to know what Slice or any of the film crew does to help these people, or if they impose on the already strained resources of these poor folk trying to scratch out an existence? Please bring them food and medicine, don't just exploit them for these videos

My Kyrgyz people.

beautiful and heartbreakin' at da same time. da whole tachibana family send all their love and prayers. wish der could be more done to help. 💖😭😘🤗💎🌟💕

very impressive...stunning. I believe I came to europe from one of these places and one of those men, similar I mean. Thank you for the video!

Incredible human survival. May their governments, we improve their life conditions🙌

Kami dari Indonesia kami menyukai bapak ibu dan saudara 2 walau jauh di mata tapi sangat dekat di hati kami ❤🎉salam dari Indonesia 🙏🙏🙏

Love and peace to our Kyrgyz and big shame to our government . from Kabul

These Wakhan Kyrgyz are nomads but lived on Little Pamir for at least 350 years. In 1894 they came under control of Afghanistan's Emir Abdurakhman by the decision of Great Powers, British Empire and Tsarist Russia to keep Wakhan Corridor as a buffer zone between India and Russia .Prior , from 1884 to 1892, Little Pamir was controlled by Qing China until all Qing China outposts in Alichur Pamir, Great Pamir and Little Pamir were driven away by summer military expedition of Russian General Ionov in 1892, that also attacked and pushed away Afghan troops that temporarily occupied Sumetash near Yashil Kul Lake in Alichur Pamir. Here Afghans in April 1892 defeated 200 Qing China troops who were sent from Urumchi by Xinjiang Province administration to build a fort. In 1895 Russia and British Empire signed agreement that formed present Wakhan Corridor as part of " buffer" Afghanistan, but Qing China refused to sign it, claiming loss of 20,000 sq km of Pamir Lands and retaining only Taghdumbash Pamir of Sarikol within Xinjiang Province. China-Afghan border was first defined and demarcated only in 1965, but border continued to be closed. During 1979-1989 Soviet occupation of Afghanistan Wakhan Corridor was controlled only by Soviet troops, Afghan troops were not allowed to get in. When on December 27 1979 Soviet troops entered Little Pamir they found here 500 Kyrgyz soldiers of local Rahmankul Khan, in Chinese uniform and armed with Chinese weapon, who fled to Pakistan without engagement with Soviet troops. From 1989-2001 Wakhan Corridor was free from turmoil of civil war in Afghanistan. The same from 2001 to 2021. When Taliban came to Wakhan Corridor in summer 2021 , Afghan Government aviation heavily bombed region and at least 50 Kyrgyz were killed, 500 fled to Tajikistan but were detained and then turned back by Tajikistan authoriries. At present time, about 1,200 Kyrgyz remained in Little Pamir and in 2024 about 500 of them for the first time received Afghan passports.

This is an astounding documentation of a dying culture. Thank you

Спасибо создателям фильма , очень интересно снято про кыргызов в Афганистане , я из Кыргызстана ,но к сожалению не знаю английский язык,можно вы сделаете субтитры на русском языке ,мы хорошо знаем русский язык,И ещё если хотите можно бы в другом фильме снять об истории как эти кыргызы оказались в Афганистане и Турции после Октябрьской революции в России,снять фильм о кыргызых в Китае , Турции,и как живут в Кыргызстане, ещё что этим кыргызам в Афганистане наше правительство оказывает постоянно шум помощь и туда даже медики ездили , Некоторые желающие эти кыргызы переселились н

09:39- Why is the wall clock positioned upside-down?

Hi havepleasuretime , in 7:45' it's wrong translated of man's explanation about the number of his family (children) in correct he says: I have five children two daughters and three sons, or three of them are male

They talk a mix of Kyrgyz and Afgan. Even in the isolated mountains they are being asimilated from their language into speaking Dari

There are a lot of fair Kyrgyz people like us 😮

I am a kyrgyz from kyrgyzstan living now in US state of pensylvania and traveling right now through the state of UTAH,Salt Lake city march 2024.Why don't they come to their homecountry kyrgyzstan?There are a lot places to live .I just don't understand why they don't wanna come over there.

And I would like to listen their kyrgyz language more ,but unfortunately they speak Farsi mostly in this vireo.

I am somber as I watch them trying to eke happiness and existence in such a forbidden and harsh place. Nothing comes easy to them.

They should migrate to Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyz who fled from the Soviet Communists

I never live in this situation I like your videos

ı hope that turkish government will welcome them to Türkiye.

Great documentary. Thanks!

It's a very nice documentaries..

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Kyrgzstan should invite them back to kyrgzstan

Kyrgyz are Türkic people,they have very strong Culture from very old time,thats why They can live still in this harsh situation altough Taliban.

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The plain and simple reason for the high mortality rates during births is due to their poor diet of wheat bread and tea. If they would eat more of the sheep instead of trading them for wives then their women would survive in higher numbers.

They speak Farsi(dari) persian which I understand and the reason that life get harder for them is they get converted by force to a faith did not do them good! With my deep respect 👍🙏

not in globalization

I love watching your videos.❤

Правительство переселили таких людей в Кыргызстан дали им скот построили дома ,но многие не захотели переселятся ,хотя здесь их дети ходят в школы и все условия

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For some goodness Why we maked is easy way to hard way... Merrying just Need wali (father), witness, Amil penghulu and some not just must be expensive

Кыргызча эле суйлобопсуздор Туугандар,

Жизнь кочевного народа без прикрас

what a harsh live? I do not understand countries like Argentina ,Venezuela they have the best land in the world and they are poor people go hungry? Those countries ( Latin American's) people should watch this slice of live and be thankful what they have.