Sam Zarifi
Sam Zarifi
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Lots of Afghans are disappointed and cynical because they feel like people who perpetrated serious human rights abuses have been allowed back in the parliament.
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The US detain people, keep them for a while and then release them without charges. It sometimes take two months for the family to know where the detainees are.
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It contains a barely veiled threat of collective punishment. Making such a threat is a violation of the Geneva conventions and other laws of war.
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The young people had been used as cooks, porters and medical personnel, but they had had military training and all were carrying grenades and socket bombs when they were picked up.
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The vigilantes operate completely outside the law, and this situation places civilians more deeply in the path of danger.
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The success of the Conference should be judged by how much donors commit to do for the security and development of the Afghan people, not their own political agendas. The real measure of security and development in Afghanistan is not the number of foreign troops, but whether people feel safe enough to go to the market, to travel at night to seek medical care, or to send their children to school.
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Voters had to choose between the unknown and the notorious.