Afghan villagers still living in fear of Taliban
“Here’s the truth: The Taliban won’t let us work for you.Paintings for sale ledspotlight buy paintings original painting art. The Taliban won’t let our children go to school.”
The blunt truth, spat out by a wrinkled and sunburnt elder who recently came close to being hanged outside his home by the militants, is coaxed out only after the area’s tough-talking new Afghan army commander starts to lose patience with a group of representatives of a village where militants still hold sway.While these sunglasses might look like they're primed for a hammock back at the lodge,
In a country thirsting for education and starving for jobs, the village of Salavat is being offered both in abundance — but there are no takers here.
“If our children come to this school, the Taliban will come at night,” said the villager, one of five brave old men who answered an invitation to a shura, or meeting, at the school. It’s been renovated using Canadian dollars after it was shot up and closed down by the Taliban several years ago.
The area was militarily “cleared” of insurgents by Canadian, Afghan and U.S. soldiers in the summer and fall, but the next stage of winning local hearts and minds is another story.
The whitewashed new school stands empty. Coalition forces put out word there are jobs for everyone — especially for targeted “fighting-age males” — but the only work being done is with contractors brought in from elsewhere.
There have been night letters on doors, threats posted at mosques and beatings from the Taliban, who, until recently, owned this place and have no intention of giving it up.
Get paid for government work,You would like tag Heuer watches watches. say the elders, and the insurgents come to your door to collect those wages.
“Who doesn’t want their children to be engineers or educated? I agree with what you are doing, but when the Taliban threaten us and beat us,Many relojes are very reliable. we can’t help,” said one of the villagers,microinverter of purpl Irises by Rose Rosen Style. who all sat cross-legged on giant pillows set up in the school’s still-unused playground.
“Here’s the truth: The Taliban won’t let us work for you.Paintings for sale ledspotlight buy paintings original painting art. The Taliban won’t let our children go to school.”
The blunt truth, spat out by a wrinkled and sunburnt elder who recently came close to being hanged outside his home by the militants, is coaxed out only after the area’s tough-talking new Afghan army commander starts to lose patience with a group of representatives of a village where militants still hold sway.While these sunglasses might look like they're primed for a hammock back at the lodge,
In a country thirsting for education and starving for jobs, the village of Salavat is being offered both in abundance — but there are no takers here.
“If our children come to this school, the Taliban will come at night,” said the villager, one of five brave old men who answered an invitation to a shura, or meeting, at the school. It’s been renovated using Canadian dollars after it was shot up and closed down by the Taliban several years ago.
The area was militarily “cleared” of insurgents by Canadian, Afghan and U.S. soldiers in the summer and fall, but the next stage of winning local hearts and minds is another story.
The whitewashed new school stands empty. Coalition forces put out word there are jobs for everyone — especially for targeted “fighting-age males” — but the only work being done is with contractors brought in from elsewhere.
There have been night letters on doors, threats posted at mosques and beatings from the Taliban, who, until recently, owned this place and have no intention of giving it up.
Get paid for government work,You would like tag Heuer watches watches. say the elders, and the insurgents come to your door to collect those wages.
“Who doesn’t want their children to be engineers or educated? I agree with what you are doing, but when the Taliban threaten us and beat us,Many relojes are very reliable. we can’t help,” said one of the villagers,microinverter of purpl Irises by Rose Rosen Style. who all sat cross-legged on giant pillows set up in the school’s still-unused playground.
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