Opium war in Afghanistan
Posted in Life by sanela | Tags: addiction, Afghanistan, opium, poppyOpium poppy heads are produced in Badakhshan province. For the harvest, farmers cut heads, and then wait until the viscous gluten is dry, to scrape it into the containers. Most of the opium is squeezed into bars and shipped to processing plants where it is turned into heroin, which is then smuggled and exported from Afghanistan. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime the Afghanistan Opium kills up to 100 thousand people a year, more than any other drug.
Once upon a time in Afghanistan
Posted in Life by sanela | Tags: Afghanistan, hope, images, past, societyOn a recent trip to Afghanistan, British Defense Secretary Liam Fox drew fire for calling it “a broken 13th-century country.” The most common objection was not that he was wrong, but that he was overly blunt. He’s hardly the first Westerner to label Afghanistan as medieval. Former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince recently described the country as inhabited by “barbarians” with “a 1200 A.D. mentality.” Many assume that’s all Afghanistan has ever been — an ungovernable land where chaos is carved into the hills. Given the images people see on TV and the headlines written about Afghanistan over the past three decades of war, many conclude the country never made it out of the Middle Ages.
