In Afghanistan, ‘who has the guns gets
the land’
Posted By: earlybird, 12/4/2021 12:20:27 PM
For decades, roughly 1,000 families called the low-slung mud-walled neighborhood of Firqa home. Some moved in during the 1990s civil war, while others were provided housing under the previous government. Soon after the Taliban takeover Aug. 15, the new government told them all to get out. Ghullam Farooq, 40, sat in the darkness of his shop in Firqa last month, describing how armed Taliban fighters came at night, expelling him at gunpoint from his home in the community, a neighborhood of Kandahar city in southern Afghanistan. “All the Taliban said was, Take your stuff and go,” he said.
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Taliban rewarding its fighters with land, often taken from others. There are no deeds, no title.
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