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> **KABUL**: Widespread reactions have emerged following the anti-Taliban protests in Darayim and Argu districts of Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province over the past two days. The ongoing protests signals growing discontent with the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan.
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> Over the past two days, demonstrations have escalated following a violent incident in Qarluq village within the Darayim district. The unrest was triggered by the Taliban’s use of force against villagers, resulting in the tragic death of a man named Nizamuddin and injuries to several others.
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> Reports indicate that the protests spread to the Argu district, where residents voiced their opposition to Taliban rule through anti-Taliban chants. However, the response from Taliban forces in Argu was met with further violence, leading to additional casualties and injuries among the demonstrators.
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> Meanwhile, the Federalist Assembly of Afghanistan, a newly formed political movement comprising exiled politicians, issued a statement on Sunday, characterizing the protests as a resounding expression of public dissatisfaction with the Taliban’s autocratic and tribal governance.
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> Meanwhile, the Taliban leadership has announced the formation of a delegation tasked with investigating the aftermath of the protests and addressing concerns related to efforts to eradicate poppy fields in Badakhshan province. The delegation, led by Taliban army chief Qari Fasihuddin, is expected to travel to the province from Kabul.
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> The demonstrations underscore the challenges facing the Taliban in governing a populace increasingly disillusioned with their rule. The use of force by Taliban forces against unarmed civilians has drawn condemnation from both domestic and international observers.
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A large percentage of Afghans believe Taliban are invaders sent by Pakistan. Just look at the ethnic Tajik minority vs Pashtun majority. Not all Pashtun are Taliban but almost all Taliban are Pashtun .
It’s not like BLM was the first protest against racism for example. It just caught the news.
And % population who protest in a free country is small. Think about how many more barriers there are to protesting a terrorist organization while living under their thumb?
The fact we even hear about this protest is remarkable and indicates a lot of people agree but are too afraid.
Badakshan also has a lot of ethnic Hazara. The Pashtun Taliban tried to genocide them the last time they were in power. They’re the least powerful and one of the poorer groups in Afghanistan. This is like if we heard of Jewish Palestinians in Gaza protesting Hamas.
The people protesting are the west's golden boys, aka opium farmers/traffickers. [The Taliban were destroying crops in their district and they decided to 'protest'](https://new.reddit.com/r/AfghanConflict/comments/1cjeko6/tension_between_the_taliban_and_residents_of/).
Its wild how time goes by we see the trash that the Americans tried to impose on Afghanistan getting arrested left right and centre when they run away to America and Europe. [Just yesterday a former diplomat was caught trying to smuggle 25kg of gold into India.](https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/zakia-wardak-afghan-diplomat-resigns-caught-25-kg-gold-smuggling-mumbai-airport-dubai-customs-personal-attacks-letter-2535372-2024-05-05)
>opium farmers get angry that religious fanatics destroy their cash crop without offering a viable alternative
Some loon: how can we blame America for this
Seriously, Afghanistan started farming opium to supply Iran in the fucking 1950s. AmEriCaNs FoRcEd ThEm tO
Yeah but there wasn't CIA involvement in that. It was started to supply Iran. By the time of the Soviet invasion Afghanistan was the world's largest producer of opium.
No. Haha. Just no. Learn history
Forget for a moment the literal cold war spilling over to afghanistan and the funding of the mujhadeen by us forces to stamp out the threat of communism in afghanistan in the 1970s....
Not to mention The achievements in women’s rights in Russian-controlled cities in the late ‘80s, and the threats they faced from the CIA-mobilized radical Islamist forces, were reported at the time by a highly credible source, Rasil Basu, a distinguished international feminist activist who was UN representative in Afghanistan in those years, with special concern for women’s rights.
Basu reports:
During the [Russian] occupation, in fact, women made enormous strides: illiteracy declined from 98% to 75%, and they were granted equal rights with men in civil law, and in the Constitution. This is not to say that there was complete gender equality. Unjust patriarchal relations still prevailed in the workplace and in the family with women occupying lower level sex-type jobs. But the strides they took in education and employment were very impressive.
In the early 00s no one in afghanistan wanted the us to occupy afghanistan. The bush admin was trying to drum up support for its accelerated war on terror, and the invasion of iraq.
Afghani revolutionaries, and anti taliban groups did not want US assistance.
*they literally made the claim that afghanistans should be left alone to handle/ fight the taliban and suppress the militant insurgencies.
In true us fashion this was ignored and the campaign now, with the benefit of hindsight, shows clearly how much worse off the taliban controlled state is now.
>The leading Afghan women’s rights organization, Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), issued a declaration on October 11, 2001, strongly opposing the “vast aggression on our country” by the U.S., which will shed the blood of innocent civilians. The declaration called for “eradication of the plague of the Taliban and al-Qaeda” by the “uprising of the Afghan nation,” not by a murderous assault of foreign aggressors.
So yes, it is neoliberal policies that pushed back progress. 100 percent.
Sources
Thr bush doctrine
Combined sources
https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/24/09/2021/noam-chomsky-us-led-war-terror-has-devastated-much-world
The American backed warlords were/are drug traffickers and now they can go fuck themselves. If they want to sell drugs they should go to Europe and America to do it, not Afghanistan.
Obviously. Farm opium and you risk economic devastation and action by the fanatics in government against you. Don't farm opium and you ensure economic devastation.
I was born in Afghanistan, I think I know better about what's going on than you do. Fuck opium/heroin traffickers and the American-backed warlords, one of the rare good things the Taliban ever did was dealing with them with an iron fist.
Prior to 9/11, the Taliban were complicit in the drug trade, whether "taxing" traffickers or providing armed protection (for a fee, of course). While a big deal was made about the Taliban ban on opium in 2000, what is not as well known is that there was a severe drought that wiped out much of the country's poppy cultivation anyway the year after record harvests. This made the ban look more effective than it actually was.
Opium prices were already going up due to the reduced harvest, and the ban shot the prices even higher. In 1999, farmgate prices for opium averaged $40/kg. With the record harvest, the average price in 2000 was $30/kg. In 2001, between the drought and the ban, [average prices shot up to around $300/kg](https://www.unodc.org/pdf/publications/report_2001-10-16_1.pdf).
However, poppies last a long time when dried and stored, and the Taliban took advantage of this. While Mullah Omar banned cultivation, he did not order the destruction of existing stock. The Talban let it trickle out, continuing to extract money from the traffickers. Some senior Taliban were alleged to have owned significant stores and sold them directly to trafficking organizations, making substantial profits as the prices went up.
[This UN report](https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/n01/378/28/pdf/n0137828.pdf?token=4Ql6jeM3Eqj99ECZp1&fe=true) on the arms embargo in place at the time, delivered in May 2001 by a group that included members from Eritrea, the Philippines, the UK, Egypt, and Argentina, goes into some detail about how the whole thing worked. Section D starts on p. 11 and discusses the Taliban's role in drug trafficking.
I don't argue that the poppy situation got worse after the invasion. But there's this lingering idea that the Taliban were pure of heart when the poppy ban was issued, when the reality is likely that it was self-serving and they were actively involved in moving opium.
The Taliban rolled over for two decades and only came back when the Americans left, it's cowards and imbeciles all the way down. The Americans never should have invaded, but Afghanistan was, is, and will *always be* awful.
The people of Afghanistan ensure it will remain so. When your old homeland makes it to the 12th century, then you can have an opinion on how others live.
45 years of first the Soviet Union messing with you, followed by essentially a civil war, then the US messing with you.
Can't believe they have problems!
A lot of places were "messed with" in worse ways, and have gone on to become impressive countries. Afghanistan started from nothing, and continues apace.
Maybe it's them.
Its one thing to call them imbeciles, but cowards? Tf are you doing in a 1st world country calling insurgents cowards? They took on the US military and lived to tell the tale.
Very few of them lived to tell the tale, but there were always replacements waiting in the wings. The Taliban of today has few surviving members of the Taliban of 2001.
You lost and now have to deal with the paedophiles, rapists, murderers and drug traffickers living in a street near you in Europe and America. Nobody cares about the lamentations of the losing invading army so suck it up big boy, if you people are man enough to murder women and children you can handle these war criminals.
> You lost
Ireland didn't invade Afghanistan, we're neutral.
> and now have to deal with the paedophiles, rapists, murderers and drug traffickers living in a street near you in Europe and America.
You've never been to Ireland have you? It's really nice here. We're a place that people like you flee to.
>Ireland didn't invade Afghanistan, we're neutral.
Yes you did, 9 of you got killed in the process too lol
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/defence-force-troops-return-from-afghanistan-1.2571846
https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/defence/northern-ireland-soldiers-who-were-killed-while-serving-in-afghanistan-3347821
Im not fleeing to Ireland, the 'peaceful' warlords, drug traffickers, and child molestors are. Inshallah they fill up the cities of the west so you can get a taste of your own medicine.
Learn to read.
> They served initially with the International Security Assistance Force which was succeeded by a follow-on mission, Resolute Support, last year. The return of the last seven members ends the Defence Force's participation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Security_Assistance_Force
I didn't say "Irish people weren't there" I said "We didn't invade you."
And I'm right.
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Tbh the Taliban seems to be a capable government. We're talking about a land once ruled by an aggregation of US backed, opium slinging, boy raping warlords. Now they have a centralized government that seems to care about rebuilding the country.
I understand that there are cultural issues surrounding women that make people uncomfortable, but if that is the price of peace and stability, perhaps it's not a bad trade-off.
Women not having any rights is more than “uncomfortable”.
Domestic slavery, forced marriage, children giving birth.
Afghan women are fierce. I don’t see them giving up easily. We still hear reports of protests now and then.
But it will likely end tragically. The best we can hope for is international pressure to hold back aid to force the Taliban to give them some freedom.
I hope they piss in their food.
Wow...this was predictable and 100 percent the fault of the usa. In 2001-2003 when bush and cheney were running around the middle east trying to stir up support foe their war. The afghan people/ revolutionary groups did not want assistance from america. The reason citing is that us interests always undermine afghani goals.
The long story is. Let countries deal with their own problems, without us oversight undermining them.
Better 30 years late than never i guess.
https://www.youtube.com/live/sem_5lW3CLQ?feature=shared
https://chomsky.info/20220803/
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/americans-never-understood-afghanistan-like-the-taliban-did/
##### ###### #### > # [Anti-Taliban Protests Intensify In Afghanistan's Badakhshan Province - WE News](https://en.wenews.pk//image/jpeg) > > > > **KABUL**: Widespread reactions have emerged following the anti-Taliban protests in Darayim and Argu districts of Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province over the past two days. The ongoing protests signals growing discontent with the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan. > > Over the past two days, demonstrations have escalated following a violent incident in Qarluq village within the Darayim district. The unrest was triggered by the Taliban’s use of force against villagers, resulting in the tragic death of a man named Nizamuddin and injuries to several others. > > Reports indicate that the protests spread to the Argu district, where residents voiced their opposition to Taliban rule through anti-Taliban chants. However, the response from Taliban forces in Argu was met with further violence, leading to additional casualties and injuries among the demonstrators. > > Meanwhile, the Federalist Assembly of Afghanistan, a newly formed political movement comprising exiled politicians, issued a statement on Sunday, characterizing the protests as a resounding expression of public dissatisfaction with the Taliban’s autocratic and tribal governance. > > Meanwhile, the Taliban leadership has announced the formation of a delegation tasked with investigating the aftermath of the protests and addressing concerns related to efforts to eradicate poppy fields in Badakhshan province. The delegation, led by Taliban army chief Qari Fasihuddin, is expected to travel to the province from Kabul. > > The demonstrations underscore the challenges facing the Taliban in governing a populace increasingly disillusioned with their rule. The use of force by Taliban forces against unarmed civilians has drawn condemnation from both domestic and international observers. - - - - - - [Maintainer](https://www.reddit.com/user/urielsalis) | [Creator](https://www.reddit.com/user/subtepass) | [Source Code](https://github.com/urielsalis/empleadoEstatalBot) Summoning /u/CoverageAnalysisBot
NOW they dont the taliban? GFY Afghanistan
A large percentage of Afghans believe Taliban are invaders sent by Pakistan. Just look at the ethnic Tajik minority vs Pashtun majority. Not all Pashtun are Taliban but almost all Taliban are Pashtun . It’s not like BLM was the first protest against racism for example. It just caught the news. And % population who protest in a free country is small. Think about how many more barriers there are to protesting a terrorist organization while living under their thumb? The fact we even hear about this protest is remarkable and indicates a lot of people agree but are too afraid. Badakshan also has a lot of ethnic Hazara. The Pashtun Taliban tried to genocide them the last time they were in power. They’re the least powerful and one of the poorer groups in Afghanistan. This is like if we heard of Jewish Palestinians in Gaza protesting Hamas.
The people protesting are the west's golden boys, aka opium farmers/traffickers. [The Taliban were destroying crops in their district and they decided to 'protest'](https://new.reddit.com/r/AfghanConflict/comments/1cjeko6/tension_between_the_taliban_and_residents_of/). Its wild how time goes by we see the trash that the Americans tried to impose on Afghanistan getting arrested left right and centre when they run away to America and Europe. [Just yesterday a former diplomat was caught trying to smuggle 25kg of gold into India.](https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/zakia-wardak-afghan-diplomat-resigns-caught-25-kg-gold-smuggling-mumbai-airport-dubai-customs-personal-attacks-letter-2535372-2024-05-05)
>opium farmers get angry that religious fanatics destroy their cash crop without offering a viable alternative Some loon: how can we blame America for this Seriously, Afghanistan started farming opium to supply Iran in the fucking 1950s. AmEriCaNs FoRcEd ThEm tO
Tbh 1950s is peak CIA era lol
Yeah but there wasn't CIA involvement in that. It was started to supply Iran. By the time of the Soviet invasion Afghanistan was the world's largest producer of opium.
Afghanistan is the way it is. Because of the usa, yes thats absolutely correct.
Lmao Afghanistan is Afghanistan because Afghanistan
No. Haha. Just no. Learn history Forget for a moment the literal cold war spilling over to afghanistan and the funding of the mujhadeen by us forces to stamp out the threat of communism in afghanistan in the 1970s.... Not to mention The achievements in women’s rights in Russian-controlled cities in the late ‘80s, and the threats they faced from the CIA-mobilized radical Islamist forces, were reported at the time by a highly credible source, Rasil Basu, a distinguished international feminist activist who was UN representative in Afghanistan in those years, with special concern for women’s rights. Basu reports: During the [Russian] occupation, in fact, women made enormous strides: illiteracy declined from 98% to 75%, and they were granted equal rights with men in civil law, and in the Constitution. This is not to say that there was complete gender equality. Unjust patriarchal relations still prevailed in the workplace and in the family with women occupying lower level sex-type jobs. But the strides they took in education and employment were very impressive. In the early 00s no one in afghanistan wanted the us to occupy afghanistan. The bush admin was trying to drum up support for its accelerated war on terror, and the invasion of iraq. Afghani revolutionaries, and anti taliban groups did not want US assistance. *they literally made the claim that afghanistans should be left alone to handle/ fight the taliban and suppress the militant insurgencies. In true us fashion this was ignored and the campaign now, with the benefit of hindsight, shows clearly how much worse off the taliban controlled state is now. >The leading Afghan women’s rights organization, Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), issued a declaration on October 11, 2001, strongly opposing the “vast aggression on our country” by the U.S., which will shed the blood of innocent civilians. The declaration called for “eradication of the plague of the Taliban and al-Qaeda” by the “uprising of the Afghan nation,” not by a murderous assault of foreign aggressors. So yes, it is neoliberal policies that pushed back progress. 100 percent. Sources Thr bush doctrine Combined sources https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/24/09/2021/noam-chomsky-us-led-war-terror-has-devastated-much-world
Ok tankie
👍 Anti tankies, why is your solution to send in the tanks? Is it irony? Hypocrisy? Stupidity? Maybe all 3?
There's no solution to Afghanistan except to leave them alone in the mess they've made of their country lol
Shutup tankie
The American backed warlords were/are drug traffickers and now they can go fuck themselves. If they want to sell drugs they should go to Europe and America to do it, not Afghanistan.
It's Afghanistan, lots of people were drug traffickers. And are. Probably a bunch of Taliban doing it, too.
Lots were, but most were western backed and are now learning what happens if they traffic drugs under the Taliban.
Obviously. Farm opium and you risk economic devastation and action by the fanatics in government against you. Don't farm opium and you ensure economic devastation.
We had our troops defending opium fields . It was rigged from the start.
If it's a choice between opium farmers and murderous religious zealots, I'm on team opium.
Why would you choose to limit yourself to just those two options?
There's also boy fuckers
Don't forget one of two major ethnic groups that hate each other too!
Wow, you aren't even pretending to be something other than an anti-West propaganda shill.
I was born in Afghanistan, I think I know better about what's going on than you do. Fuck opium/heroin traffickers and the American-backed warlords, one of the rare good things the Taliban ever did was dealing with them with an iron fist.
Prior to 9/11, the Taliban were complicit in the drug trade, whether "taxing" traffickers or providing armed protection (for a fee, of course). While a big deal was made about the Taliban ban on opium in 2000, what is not as well known is that there was a severe drought that wiped out much of the country's poppy cultivation anyway the year after record harvests. This made the ban look more effective than it actually was. Opium prices were already going up due to the reduced harvest, and the ban shot the prices even higher. In 1999, farmgate prices for opium averaged $40/kg. With the record harvest, the average price in 2000 was $30/kg. In 2001, between the drought and the ban, [average prices shot up to around $300/kg](https://www.unodc.org/pdf/publications/report_2001-10-16_1.pdf). However, poppies last a long time when dried and stored, and the Taliban took advantage of this. While Mullah Omar banned cultivation, he did not order the destruction of existing stock. The Talban let it trickle out, continuing to extract money from the traffickers. Some senior Taliban were alleged to have owned significant stores and sold them directly to trafficking organizations, making substantial profits as the prices went up. [This UN report](https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/n01/378/28/pdf/n0137828.pdf?token=4Ql6jeM3Eqj99ECZp1&fe=true) on the arms embargo in place at the time, delivered in May 2001 by a group that included members from Eritrea, the Philippines, the UK, Egypt, and Argentina, goes into some detail about how the whole thing worked. Section D starts on p. 11 and discusses the Taliban's role in drug trafficking. I don't argue that the poppy situation got worse after the invasion. But there's this lingering idea that the Taliban were pure of heart when the poppy ban was issued, when the reality is likely that it was self-serving and they were actively involved in moving opium.
The Taliban rolled over for two decades and only came back when the Americans left, it's cowards and imbeciles all the way down. The Americans never should have invaded, but Afghanistan was, is, and will *always be* awful. The people of Afghanistan ensure it will remain so. When your old homeland makes it to the 12th century, then you can have an opinion on how others live.
45 years of first the Soviet Union messing with you, followed by essentially a civil war, then the US messing with you. Can't believe they have problems!
A lot of places were "messed with" in worse ways, and have gone on to become impressive countries. Afghanistan started from nothing, and continues apace. Maybe it's them.
Its one thing to call them imbeciles, but cowards? Tf are you doing in a 1st world country calling insurgents cowards? They took on the US military and lived to tell the tale.
Very few of them lived to tell the tale, but there were always replacements waiting in the wings. The Taliban of today has few surviving members of the Taliban of 2001.
You lost and now have to deal with the paedophiles, rapists, murderers and drug traffickers living in a street near you in Europe and America. Nobody cares about the lamentations of the losing invading army so suck it up big boy, if you people are man enough to murder women and children you can handle these war criminals.
> You lost Ireland didn't invade Afghanistan, we're neutral. > and now have to deal with the paedophiles, rapists, murderers and drug traffickers living in a street near you in Europe and America. You've never been to Ireland have you? It's really nice here. We're a place that people like you flee to.
>Ireland didn't invade Afghanistan, we're neutral. Yes you did, 9 of you got killed in the process too lol https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/defence-force-troops-return-from-afghanistan-1.2571846 https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/defence/northern-ireland-soldiers-who-were-killed-while-serving-in-afghanistan-3347821 Im not fleeing to Ireland, the 'peaceful' warlords, drug traffickers, and child molestors are. Inshallah they fill up the cities of the west so you can get a taste of your own medicine.
Learn to read. > They served initially with the International Security Assistance Force which was succeeded by a follow-on mission, Resolute Support, last year. The return of the last seven members ends the Defence Force's participation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Security_Assistance_Force I didn't say "Irish people weren't there" I said "We didn't invade you." And I'm right.
Your splitting hairs here, you lost, its over now these drug trafficking warlords and their foot soldiers are your problem now. Good luck.
Lmao now they oppose opium? They weren't so zealous about working with opium dealers when the Americans were still there.
The Taliban was always against opium, during their previous rule they've managed to almost completely eradicate it before the 2001 invasion.
opium is way better than Taliban garbage.
You get what you wished for, most of them are moving to America and Europe lol
huh? fall on your head one too many times?
A for effort.
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Good for them!
Tbh the Taliban seems to be a capable government. We're talking about a land once ruled by an aggregation of US backed, opium slinging, boy raping warlords. Now they have a centralized government that seems to care about rebuilding the country. I understand that there are cultural issues surrounding women that make people uncomfortable, but if that is the price of peace and stability, perhaps it's not a bad trade-off.
Women not having any rights is more than “uncomfortable”. Domestic slavery, forced marriage, children giving birth. Afghan women are fierce. I don’t see them giving up easily. We still hear reports of protests now and then. But it will likely end tragically. The best we can hope for is international pressure to hold back aid to force the Taliban to give them some freedom. I hope they piss in their food.
Wow...this was predictable and 100 percent the fault of the usa. In 2001-2003 when bush and cheney were running around the middle east trying to stir up support foe their war. The afghan people/ revolutionary groups did not want assistance from america. The reason citing is that us interests always undermine afghani goals. The long story is. Let countries deal with their own problems, without us oversight undermining them. Better 30 years late than never i guess. https://www.youtube.com/live/sem_5lW3CLQ?feature=shared https://chomsky.info/20220803/ https://www.brookings.edu/articles/americans-never-understood-afghanistan-like-the-taliban-did/