RAWA photo gallery (Afghanistan) show Bush's failure to-date

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http://rawa.fancymarketing.net/index.html
http://rawa.fancymarketing.net/gallery.html


http://rawa.fancymarketing.net/tymstrt.htm

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AFGHANISTAN: Report exposes continuing human rights abuses
Green Left Weekly, August 13, 2003
http://rawa.fancymarketing.net/hrw-glp.htm

BY DR LYNETTE DUMBLE



In late July, New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report entitled Killing you is a very easy thing for us, a 101-page documentation of the chief forms of abuse prevalent today in Kabul and the densely populated provinces in the southeast of Afghanistan.

These are violent armed robbery, extortion and kidnapping by armed troops, police and intelligence agents, government-led attacks on fellow politicians and the media, and Taliban-like persecution of women and girls. According to the report, the abuses are not restricted to Afghanistan's southeast, but are “emblematic” of what is happening throughout the country.

HRW assigns blame for this situation to Afghanistan's infamous warlords, many of whom are remnants of the late Ahmad Shah Masood's United Front (the patchwork of the Mujaheddin or holy warrior factions which is currently referred to as the Northern Alliance) which, bankrolled by the US, Pakistan, Iran and Saudi Arabia, overthrew the Soviet-backed government of Mohammad Najibullah in 1992.

These factions introduced a reign of terror until they were ousted by the Taliban in 1996. In HRW's words: “Past and current support for local forces by the US government, along with support by Pakistani and Iranian government agencies, has done much to entrench the warlords responsible for the worst abuses.”

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this from LBN -

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=114966


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1514&e=9&u=/afp/afghanistan_taliban

KABUL (AFP) - Suspected Taliban have threatened to cut off the nose and ears of men who shave their beards or anyone caught listening to music in a district of southeast Afghanistan (news - web sites).

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