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Afghanistan
Kandahar: over one hundred thousand people displaced
2021-07-28
[KhaamaPress] Ever since the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
toppled two Police Districts of Kandahar city —the thriving provincial capital- and neighboring districts of the capital city, the city has been the battlefield between the Afghan government forces and the Taliban.

The warring sides have been fighting in six Police Districts of the city for the past three weeks.

As per a survey cited by local journalists, an average number of over one hundred thousand people from 22 thousand families have been displaced to secure areas of Kandahar city. Four families are now living in a residence once fit for only one and most of the others are living on the roads.

Tens of families have also been settled in two local camps.

In a temperature now soaring 40 centigrade, people in Kandahar are devoid of electricity, fuel price has been nearly doubled, academic institutions are shut and there are no mobile signals/connections available by night.

Local journalists report that public residential areas and homes have been transformed into military bastions and are being used by both sides.

Civilians are being killed and maimed on daily basis but there is no human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
advocate to defend the violation of human rights.

Pillage once reported from the districts of Kandahar province has to been witnessed in the thriving provincial capital as several shops and drugstores reportedly looted recently.

People in Kandahar city warn that if the conflict continues with its current momentum, more people will displace which will lead to a humanitarian disaster in the strategic province of Kandahar.
Related:
Kandahar city: 2021-07-22 Afghanistan Relatively Calm on Second Day of Eid
Kandahar city: 2021-07-16 Govt Relocates 240 Prisoners from Kandahar After Taliban Attacks
Kandahar city: 2021-07-15 Taliban Control Spin Boldak Crossing in Kandahar, and beyond
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