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Re: Hold your fire?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 8 Oct 2001 18:56:16 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
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> http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/rights/articles/eav100301.shtml
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> While many Afghans are anxious to see an end to Taliban rule, they remain
> feaful about the prospect of a return of the Northern Alliance, also known
> as the United Front. When the factions that comprise the Northern Alliance ?
> together with some who have since been excluded ? took power in Kabul in
> 1992, they turned on each other almost immediately, plunging the capital
> into anarchy.
Scott,
I know of the work of Human Rights Watch, but who funds eurasianet?
I couldn't find any references on their site. Thanks.
There are dozens of tribes in the region and you can't tell who's doing
what to whom without a detailed scorecard. I hesitate to define any good-guys
and bad-guys; kind of like Washington <g>.
tom
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| (...) Read around Larry, they are little better. They are know to rape women in the towns they capture. More here: (URL) many Afghans are anxious to see an end to Taliban rule, they remain feaful about the prospect of a return of the Northern (...) (23 years ago, 8-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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