one finds Hazaras in many of the towns and cities of Afghanistan as well as in the Hazarajat. Annabelle Quince : For most of the early part of the twentieth century, the Hazaras either eked out an existence in the Hazarajat or worked in low paying jobs in the cities and towns of Afghanistan. Journalist (archival) : President Carter has again condemned the Soviet Union over its involvement in Afghanistan, saying his opinion of the Russians has changed drastically in the past week. He said Mr Brezhnev had claimed that the Afghan government had invited the Soviet Union to protect it from a third nation, but Mr Carter said this was obviously false. Annabelle Quince : When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the Hazaras attempted to join the resistance forces -- but found they weren't welcome. Grant Farr : The resistance groups that we know about that fought the Soviet Union were largely Pashtun groups. That's because Pakistan favoured them and the arms against the Russians ran through Pakistan at that time. But the Hazaras came out, some of the groups tried to form resistance groups, but what they found when they came out to Peshawar or Quetta, or the other kinds of places in Pakistan from which the war was fought against the Soviet Union, that they got very little support. So many of them turned to Iran. Ahmed Rashid : The Hazaras were always treated almost as second-class citizens by the Pashtuns: they were the servants, the