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An Afghan police vehicle leaves the police station compound for a routine patrol around the city in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2008. Suicide bombings and ambushes killed more than 900 Afghan police in 2008. |
KANDAHAR, (click here) Afghanistan -- Taliban militants ambushed a group of police while they were eating lunch in remote southern Afghanistan, killing 20 and fatally shooting the mother of one as she pleaded unsuccessfully for her son's life, an official said Thursday...
This type of treatment of prisoners is NOT going to appeal to the hearts and minds of the people of Afghanistan. It will escalate the opposition and empower the Taliban. This is what the USA has trained in Afghanistan?
Really?
I can understand how the new police forces are seeking relief from being the icon of hate by the Taliban, but, the citizens receive enough brutality from the Taliban, they don't have to believe they are simply finding 'the same thing' but now in uniform of the Afghan government.
Questions? I am not surprised there are prison breaks and a sincere lack of trust in the government. This has to stop. NOW ! This has become a self fulfilling prophesy.
U.N. Finds ‘Systematic’ Torture in Afghanistan (click here)
By ALISSA J. RUBIN
Published: October 10, 2011
...The report provides a devastating picture of the abuses committed by arms of the Afghanistan government as the American-led foreign forces here are moving to wind down their presence after a decade of war. The abuses were uncovered even as American and other Western trainers and mentors had been working closely with the ministries overseeing the detention facilities and funded their operations.Acting on an early draft of the report seen last month, NATO stopped handing over detainees to the Afghans in several areas of the country....
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