30 August 2007

"Insecurity will worsen and democracy risks failing in insurgency-ridden Afghanistan if the police are not reformed and depoliticised," the International Crisis Group warns in a new report. "Overlooked for years in favour of building the army and today too often misused as a military auxiliary to fight the Taliban, they often remain more a source of fear to communities than protection. Instead of increasing coercive power...

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