Taliban Kill Dozens as Reinforcements Scramble to Afghan Shi’ite District

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1. The Shi’ite Hazaras have mobilized their own local militias to try to
   resist the Taliban. While in general, the Taliban has not explicitly
   targeted the Shi’ites during the war, other Islamist factions have, and
   that has led to the Hazaras developing their own security forces.

   Let’s take a closer look at a Hazara militia:
   The untouchable: a new breed of warlord

   TARIN KOWT, 2013: In the twilight that passes for reality in Afghanistan, the story of Hakim Shujoyi does not add up neatly – but there’s enough in its different parts to suggest that a monster is stalking the eastern flank of Oruzgan province.
   Personal detail is opaque, but not the contradictions from which Shujoyi draws inordinate power in Khas Oruzgan, a wild and mountainous swath of the province in which the Kabul government is yet to assert its authority beyond the confines of the Khas Oruzgan bazaar.
   As a minority Hazara, Shujoyi ordinarily might be expected to step gingerly around the majority Pashtuns, but a reputation as a fearless “Taliban hunter” has earned enough US military protection for him to cast himself as a new warlord – even as the Americans were backing him into the leadership of a new grassroots community protection service, the Afghan Local Police or ALP.
   . . .”The Americans give Shujoyi a position, so he goes and kills 18 people in the one family … He rapes, he kills the old and the young. His men steal money, cars and motorbikes. Shujoyi participates in gang rape and robbery.”. . .here

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   1. Proof of the eternal wisdom that violence begets violence, the fruit of violence is only violence and peace can never come from violence just as a pig will never give birth to a chicken. The circle of violence as completed a turn.

2. Good!

3. Still ‘winning’ in Afghanistan after 17 years.

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