Electric shocks, hanging detainees from ceilings, beatings, and sexual assault. When will international forces and the Afghan government truly grapple with the problem of the abuse of detainees?
Posts Tagged “Afghanistan”
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Over the past two years, the use of night raids in Afghanistan has skyrocketed, indicating an important tactical shift (with detrimental consequences) by U.S. and international forces.
Posted in: Asia, Governance & Accountability, Middle East, United States
Topics: Afghanistan, Christopher Rogers, ISAF, night raids, Taliban, U.S. Special Operations Forces
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If the Taliban came to your house in the night, fully armed, and demanded food, would you feed them? You may have no choice. This does not make you a combatant.
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A UN report has exposed systematic torture and abuse in several Afghan prisons where international forces transfer detainees, including beatings, electrocutions, and threats of sexual assault.
Posted in: Asia, Governance & Accountability, Rights & Justice
Topics: Afghanistan, Christopher Rogers, detainees, ISAF, torture, UN report
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Two reports call attention to the failure of the United States to win hearts and minds in Afghanistan and Pakistan, despite spending billions of taxpayer dollars.
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President Hamid Karzai recently accused international forces of acting like occupiers, rather than allies, and implied that if they do not halt airstrikes on civilian homes, Afghans would respond with force.
Posted in: Asia, Governance & Accountability, Middle East, United States
Topics: Afghanistan, civilian casualties, Erica Gaston, Hamid Karzai, night raids, U.S. military
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In Afghanistan, substitution treatments like methadone have helped people who use drugs reclaim their health and add stability to their lives. Yet this treatment is available to less than 10 percent of those who need it.
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The detention of journalists for trying to provide an independent voice on security incidents undermines Western governments' otherwise positive efforts to support free media in Afghanistan in the past 10 years.
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More "shock and awe" tactics may represent a "jump the shark" moment—the historic juncture demarcating the public’s acceptance that the U.S. war in Afghanistan is doomed to fail.
Posted in: Asia, Governance & Accountability, Middle East
Topics: Afghanistan, civilian casualties, General David Petraeus, Mike Amitay, U.S. military
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If the notion that girls should not be educated or that English education was bad had popular support, the extremists would not have to blow up schools: they would be empty anyway.
Posted in: Asia, Education & Youth, Middle East, Rights & Justice
Topics: Afghanistan, counterterrorism, Faisal Bari, girls, Pakistan, Taliban, women