Monday 12 September 2011

Petraeus' Local Police Groups Terrorising Afghans - Human Rights Watch


'Poor governance, corruption, human rights abuses, and impunity for government-affiliated forces all are drivers of the insurgency."
Afghanistan's intelligence agency, the National Directorate of Security, had reactivated militia networks dating back to Afghanistan's bloody civil war, the report said, providing money and weapons that have been used with impunity.
Northern Kunduz province has seen a particularly rapid spread, and Human Rights Watch cites the case of four men killed by a militia in the course of a family dispute in 2009. No one involved had been arrested, because the commander had close ties to police and a local strongman, the report said.
Also problematic are the Afghan Local Police (ALP), a flagship project of General David Petraeus, who stepped down as commander of foreign forces in Afghanistan earlier this year. Full article here.

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  1. This is turning the clock back to the 90s when militias ravaged Afghanistan when we were backing the taliban. Wealthy Afghans backed them then as well.

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