12 June 2007

In "The Future of the Mujahideen: Legitimacy, Legacy and Demobilization in Post-Bonn Afghanistan", Michael Bhatia focuses on the role of mujahideen in contemporary Afghanistan. Broadly defined within the Afghanistan context, the mujahideen are the various Afghan opposition groups that fought against the Soviet occupation, and who later fought each other in the Afghan civil war (1992-96). The author examines the debate over the mujahideen’s...

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