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"Mr President, the danger with foreign policy initiatives designed to counter terrorism following the 11 September disaster is that we are deluded into thinking that in the parts of the world where this strategy has been deployed everything has therefore been resolved. The reality is, however, rather different. In Afghanistan, most of the country outside Kabul is still under the control of warlords and regional leaders who continue to commit human rights abuses on a large scale, including torture and the disappearance of Afghan civilians. Women's rights, as has already been mentioned, are also consistently being violated.
Along with the detention of 600 people without charge or trial in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that Mr Sakellariou mentioned, these are matters that we tend to forget, deluding ourselves that the problems have been and are being resolved. In Afghanistan, in the Herat province under the governorship of Ismail Khan, the situation has deteriorated. Whereas once there was a liberal, literary and cultural tradition, women are again being persecuted and barred from education, health care and the justice system. Even under the Taliban there was at least a semblance of central control that limited the excesses of these regional autocrats. Now many regions have reverted to a quasi-dictatorship and reconstruction funds are benefiting regional leaders who are committing human rights abuses politically and financially.
This must stop. UNAMA, the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan, must stop funding these offending warlords immediately.
Some of us in the European Parliament recently saw a film by Jamie Doran, the Scottish film-maker, backing with hard evidence the existence of a mass grave in the Mazar-i-Sharif region which might contain the remains of 3 000 prisoners of war, killed and tortured by anti-Taliban forces. This is an atrocity that members of the American forces witnessed and did not prevent. I am glad the United Nations and the European Union have now agreed to investigate this alleged crime."@en1
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