Joanna Nathan
Joanna Nathan
emotive incredibly upset
It's an incredibly emotive issue. This is something that really upset Afghans.
abuse cases committed continue culture decision human past people policy problems rights sheer state tribal
The state we're in now is because of the policy decision to co-opt those people who in the past committed human rights abuses. There's a culture of impunity. They continue in many cases to abuse the rights of people under them. There are drug problems in the north, tribal problems, sheer criminality.
elections hit stick time western
Why should they stick to a Western timetable? Why hit the elections when they can hit any time they want?
bringing chance direction factions future obviously people perhaps pull together until voice women
Until now, there has obviously only been an executive. And we really see that there is a chance to pull together a lot of people from a lot of different backgrounds, perhaps from different factions in the past, from different sectarian groups, getting some women in there obviously and bringing them all together to give them a voice on the future direction of Afghanistan.