Afghanistan Thread | Taliban Rule

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Basic training going to last one day

shyt is wild when you think about


you would think it would be a time of hope for their country but they're just like nah suicide bomber time

 

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Musician Weeps as Taliban Fighters Burn His Instruments in Public

Footage shows Taliban fighters burning the drums and harmonium of a local musician, and making him say “I am scum” before a large crowd.

 

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The Silence — or Worse — of Human Rights Hawks on U.S. Sanctions Against Afghanistan

While limited humanitarian exceptions for trade have been carved out in recent weeks, the World Health Organization has already warned that up to 1 million Afghan children may die as a result of malnutrition over this winter if drastic steps are not taken. Children are already bearing the brunt of the humanitarian catastrophe, punctuated by horrifying stories of kids being sold to pay for food. And the country’s notoriously harsh winter is already taking a toll: Afghans are freezing to death as they flee the country with their families.

U.S. sanctions policy is directly to blame, pushing Afghans over the edge as they already struggle to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic and the political upheaval created by the collapse of the central government. As Paul Spiegel, director of the Center for Humanitarian Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, wrote this December, after returning from a trip to Afghanistan on behalf of the WHO, “I can clearly state that if the United States and other Western governments do not change their Afghanistan sanction policies, more Afghans will die from sanctions than at the hands of the Taliban.”

The deaths will be brought about as a result of deliberate policy decisions made in the U.S. Alongside new sanctions imposed after the Taliban takeover, the U.S. froze nearly $10 billion of Afghanistan’s central bank holdings here. The Biden administration refuses to release the funds despite ongoing public protests by Afghans.

The situation in Afghanistan may yet stand out as one of the deadliest instances of violence against civilians inflicted by U.S. sanctions. The Afghan government that was built over two decades of American occupation was created to be wholly dependent on foreign support, particularly its health care system. With the abrupt withdrawal of aid and the imposition of sanctions, millions of Afghans, including women and children, are now at risk.

More stories of starvation, death from the cold, and families broken apart by economic need are likely to result from the present approach of preventing access to funds owned by the Afghan government and denying aid. And it seems unlikely that such measures will do what 20 years of war could not: build a stable government that keeps the Taliban out of power.

Though sanctions on Afghanistan won’t achieve U.S. political aims, they are, as in so many other countries, succeeding in visiting cruel consequences upon the most vulnerable. House Democrats have called on Biden to release funds owned by Afghanistan’s central bank, but the administration has so far been resistant to this step. One reason could be that reversing course would reveal the brutality of the underlying policy — employing sanctions to deny foreign nations’ central banks access to their funds — which the U.S. government continues to do in other cases. Meanwhile, the broader sanctions regime on Afghanistan remains in place, with ordinary Afghans bearing the brunt.

“To help Afghanistan make progress on the humanitarian front, it is simply not enough to just give aid to Afghanistan. Washington’s financial warfare against the country must end,” wrote Giorgio Cafiero, CEO of Gulf State Analytics and an adjunct fellow at the American Security Project. “Those in the West who voiced so much concern about the lack of freedom for Afghan women under the Taliban ought to also care about their survival this winter.”

 

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Starving Afghan kids sold, forced into labor amid dire economic and humanitarian crises

 

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Over a Million Flee as Afghanistan’s Economy Collapses

 

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Taliban raised on war bring a heavy hand to security role

 

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Spurning Demand by the Taliban, Biden Moves to Split $7 Billion in Frozen Afghan Funds

 

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Spurning Demand by the Taliban, Biden Moves to Split $7 Billion in Frozen Afghan Funds

I’m sure he’ll start working on getting another 3.5 billion for the victims families from the Saudis any day now.


[URL="https://theintercept.com/2022/02/11/afghanistan-frozen-assets-economy/"]Biden’s Decision on Frozen Afghanistan Money Is Tantamount to Mass Murder[/URL]

 

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I’m sure he’ll start working on getting another 3.5 billion for the victims families from the Saudis any day now.

https://youtu.be/MT5kKy8Wr_I
Biden’s Decision on Frozen Afghanistan Money Is Tantamount to Mass Murder
https://youtu.be/MT5kKy8Wr_I

It's our money.

 

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It's our money.

Afghan central bank assets is a strange name for our money.

AFTER MAKING THE initially brave decision last summer to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan, the Biden administration announced on Friday that it intends to split the Afghan central bank’s assets — which are held in the possession of the New York Federal Reserve Bank — between the families of 9/11 victims and unspecified efforts “for the benefit of the Afghan people.” The decision puts Biden on track to cause more death and destruction in Afghanistan than was caused by the 20 years of war that he ended.

 

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Afghan central bank assets is a strange name for our money.

It's convenient if you ignore this money came from the US to support their democratic government we propped up and not the Taliban who overthrew that government.

 

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It's convenient if you ignore this money came from the US to support their democratic government we propped up and not the Taliban who overthrew that government.

Not that this should matter but not all of this money came from the U.S., but hey why should the guy who is currently helping to starve children in Afghanistan care?

 

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Afghan central bank assets is a strange name for our money.

If they didn't want their money jacked they shouldn't have kept it in the New York Federal Reserve. They should have given up Bin Laden back in 01 and the US would have left them alone.

 

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Not that this should matter but not all of this money came from the U.S., but hey why should the guy who is currently helping to starve children in Afghanistan care?

Taliban gotta pay what they owe. The people of Afghanistan could have avoided this by not put the Taliban back in power knowing they had an outstanding debt against them.

Everyone knew these funds would be siezed if the Taliban regained power. Hence the money being kept stateside.



If they're unhappy with the Taliban, oh well.