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17 December 2008

How to 'fix' Afghanistan?

This isn't the first account you'll hear about the lack of good governance in Afghanistan. But it sure isn't a pretty one:
Nurallah strode into our workshop shaking with rage. His mood shattered ours. 'This is no government,' he stormed. 'The police are like animals.'
The story gushed out of him: There'd been a fender-bender in the Kandahar bazaar, a taxi and a bicycle among wooden-wheeled vegetable carts. Wrenching around to avoid the knot, another cart touched one of the green open-backed trucks the police drive. In seconds, the officers were dragging the man to the chalky dust, beating him -- blow after blow to the head, neck, hips, kidneys. Shopkeepers in the nearby stalls began shouting, 'What do you want to do, kill him?' The police slung the man into the back of their truck and roared away."


By: Brant

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