Afghanistan: Lords of Ghor

Afghanistan: Lords of Ghor | IWPR
Security officials in the province say thousands of civilians have died at the hands of in recent years – 150 between January and November 2014. Civilians are often killed when they get caught up in clashes between different militias competing for control of a particular areas.
As well as extorting money from the local population, the warlords have instituted their own ad hoc systems of government which often entail brutal and arbitrary punishments.
The volatile situation illustrates the weakness of central government control in this remote province, where security has steadily deteriorated over the last eight years. Although estimates, officials in Ghor say the assortment of private armies operating there outnumbers national security forces by four-to-one.