Afghanistan, Bamiyan. A Hazara man in the road to Bamiyan. The origins of the Hazaras is hotly debated but some claim that they are decendants of the invading armies of Genghis and his successors, perhaps of the 'thousands' left behind in each conquered city to propagate the race and to maintain control of the populace. Others claim that the Hazaras migrated to Afghanistan long before Islam, and others still, that they are the heirs of Timur. Whatever the truth of the matter, they are a strikingly handsome race; a living demonstration of the extent to which trade and conquest led to the movement of peoples over vast distances along the old trade routes