Human Rights and Democracy: The 2010 Foreign & Commonwealth Office Report
04 April 2011
In Afghanistan the Pool funded the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission’s work on human rights education and advocacy as well as their monitoring and investigation of allegations of human rights abuses. In Helmand Province in south Afghanistan, the Pool funded initiatives by provincial and district government officials and community elders to promote non-Taliban informal justice systems in the province. [...] Elections The first...
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Afghanistan Drugs: Evolution from a War Economy to a Drug Economy
04 April 2011
This new AAN thematic report (with SWP Berlin) by German scholar Citha D. Maass looks into the beginnings and the evolution of drug production in Afghanistan during its three decades-long war. Starting with the Western-supported anti-Soviet jihad in 1979, drug production became a major base for the country’s war economy. After the fall of the Taleban regime in 2001, the US rehabilitated the former mujahedin leaders who – as the Taleban...
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Afghan Border Police Officer Kills Two US Soldiers
04 April 2011
Two American soldiers were shot to death by an Afghan police officer on Monday in northern Afghanistan, Afghan officials said. It was at least the third time this year that Afghan security personnel had turned on coalition soldiers. [...] The two American victims were involved in training the Afghan Border Police at a base in Maimana city, the capital of Faryab Province, according to Abdul Sattar Bariz, the deputy governor of the province. The attack...
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Insurgents Attack NATO Camp in Kabul
04 April 2011
Several insurgents were killed as they attacked a NATO camp in Kabul with assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, slightly wounding three troops, NATO and police said. The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Afghan police gave differing figures for the number of dead assailants, while the Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. "At 06:30 am on Saturday, we received information that Camp Phoenix was under attack...
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Quran Protests Spread to Turbulent Afghan East
04 April 2011
Demonstrators battled police in southern Afghanistan's main city on Sunday and took to the streets in the turbulent east for the first time as Western pleas failed to halt a third day of rage over a Florida pastor's burning of the Quran. An officer was shot dead in a second day of clashes in the city of Kandahar, said provincial health director Qayum Pokhla. Two officers and 18 civilians were wounded, he said. In Jalalabad, the largest city in the...
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