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Forces linked to General Dostum terrorize villagers, HRW says

Edit Khaama Press 01 Aug 2016
Dostum was elected vice-president in September 2014 ... “It was about 8 a.m ... She said that they told her, “You are Pashtuns, you cannot say anything – you have no rights.” ... The New York-based rights organization also added it has documented killings and other abuses by Junbish militia against ethnic Pashtuns in these same villages in the immediate aftermath of the defeat of the Taliban government in late 2001....

America's Longest War Gets Longer

Edit Information Clearing House 01 Aug 2016
By Eric Margolis ... This was rich coming from the US that snoops into everyone’s emails and phones across the globe ... Blaming Putin was a master-stroke of deflection ... For the past thirteen years, America, the world’s greatest military and economic power, has been trying to crush the life out of Afghan Pashtun mountain tribesmen whose primary sin is fiercely opposing occupation by the US and its local Afghan opium-growing stooges ... Eric S....

Forces Linked to Vice President Terrorize Villagers in Afghanistan

Edit The Oslo Times 31 Jul 2016
July 31, NY ... HRW interviewed villagers in the aftermath of the attack ... Dostum was elected vice-president in September 2014 ... She said that they told her, “You are Pashtuns, you cannot say anything – you have no rights.” ... Human Rights Watch documented killings and other abuses by Junbish militia against ethnic Pashtuns in these same villages in the immediate aftermath of the defeat of the Taliban government in late 2001....

Afghanistan: Forces Linked to Vice President Terrorize Villagers (HRW - Human Rights Watch)

Edit Public Technologies 31 Jul 2016
(Source. HRW - Human Rights Watch) ... Human Rights Watch interviewed villagers in the aftermath of the attack ... It was about 8 a.m ... She said that they told her, 'You are Pashtuns, you cannot say anything - you have no rights.' ... Human Rights Watch documented killings and other abuses by Junbish militia against ethnic Pashtuns in these same villages in the immediate aftermath of the defeat of the Taliban government in late 2001 ... (noodl....

Afghan chief executive's Twitter account hacked

Edit Deccan Chronicle 31 Jul 2016
Kabul ... "I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery ... The group appears to be sympathetic to the plight of the Hazara community which has been persecuted for decades, with thousands killed in the late 1990s by Al-Qaeda and the mainly Pashtun Taliban ... ....

Rights Group Demands Prosecution of Afghan Militia Forces for Abuses

Edit Voa News 31 Jul 2016
An international human rights group Sunday demanded authorities in Afghanistan prosecute militia forces linked to a top government official for recent killings and other abuses against civilians in the northern Faryab province ... After Taliban fighters left the area, Junbish forces entered four villages and assaulted villagers, mainly ethnic Pashtuns, accusing them of supporting the Taliban ... ....

Munich Shooter Considered Himself Aryan, Admired Hitler and Breivik. No Wonder the Media Has Moved On

Edit Alternet 30 Jul 2016
Sonboly was influenced by right-wing ideology, but German and U.S. media have cast him as just another shooter. Last Friday, all of Germany stood still as news arrived of another terrible shooting ... The reason was simple ... Sonboly selected the date to honor Breivik, his personal hero ... In Afghanistan, some ethnic Pashtuns and Tajiks fancy themselves the “real Aryans” and express racism toward minorities like Uzbek or Hazara people....

Traumedy in times of crisis

Edit Al Jazeera 29 Jul 2016
In the recent comedy Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Tina Fey's rookie war reporter falls down every pothole in Kabul. At first she thinks the local people are "Afghanis" (that would be the currency). Peeing while out on patrol proves problematic ... "Where are you going to hide it? Inside a f****** sunset?" ... traumedy ... This Pashtun peacock loses the upper hand when he turns up at the Westerners' party pad in order to show off his dancing prowess ... ....

Guns cheaper than smartphones in Pakistani tribal town

Edit The Times of India 28 Jul 2016
DARRA ADAMKHEL. Gunfire echoes through a dusty northwest tribal town, the soundtrack to Pakistan's biggest arms black market, where Kalashnikovs welded from scrap metal are cheaper than smartphones and sold on an industrial scale ... The MP5 can retail for thousands of dollars ... Residents, for their part, viewed the market as legitimate in an area dominated by Pashtun traditions, where gun culture is deeply embedded in male identity....

Department of Defense Press Briefing by General Nicholson via teleconference from Afghanistan (US Department of Defense)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Jul 2016
(Source. US Department of Defense) CAPTAIN JEFF DAVIS. Good morning. We're pleased to be joined live via video link from Kabul today, with General John W. Nicholson. He assumed duties as commander of Resolute Support and U.S. Forces Afghanistan in March ... GENERAL JOHN NICHOLSON. Thanks very much, Jeff ... So, since then, U.S ... So 70 percent, roughly, of those fighters are from the TTP and many of them are Pakistani Pashtun from the Orakzai Agency....

Afghan Leaders See Sectarian Agenda in IS Kabul Attack

Edit Voa News 27 Jul 2016
More violence could inflame tensions between Hazaras, until recently a persecuted minority, and Pashtuns, historically the country's politically dominant ethnic group ... "Their main target may be Shi'ites, but they have not spared other ethnicities," Erfani said of an IS campaign that has killed hundreds of Pashtuns in eastern Afghanistan....

The affliction destroying Afghan women's lives

Edit Al Jazeera 27 Jul 2016
With 2,000 babies delivered each month, the Malalai Maternity Hospital in Kabul buzzes with a joyous kind of bedlam. Clipboard-wielding nurses power walk through the hallways. New mothers coo at tiny newborns ... Over the entrance a sign reads. Fistula Clinic ... READ MORE ... Dr Pashtun Kohestani, 48, worked at Malalai in the maternity ward throughout the Taliban period, one of only a handful of women allowed to work under suffocating conditions ... ....

Ethnic polarisation: Afghanistan's emerging threat

Edit Al Jazeera 26 Jul 2016
One perspective construes Afghanistan as the land of the Pashtuns and hence Pashtuns' political mastery. Their opponent discourse describes the country as the heartland of ancient Khorasan and ensuing political-cultural prominence of non-Pashtuns ... The drafters' assumption and ensuing implementation was the allocation of presidency to a Pashtun and ......
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