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Melmasti The Beast
Melmastia (The Beast) meaning hospitality is the obligation for all Pashtunwali to take care of anyone regardless of race, economic standing, differences, or past problems. This unwritten ethical code requires them to not turn anyone away even if they killed one of their family members or so on. This is something that I think is honestly really admirable about the Afghan culture. This whole movie is an example of this code being honored and used. A Russian group of soldiers came into a small defenseless village and basically massacred it and even made the women watch their leader get run over by a tank. Later on this same village found one of the soldiers tied up and defenseless himself tied up to a rock. The women started to throw rocks at
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