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2011-06-19 Afghanistan

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Posted by Fred 2011-06-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
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#1 A bit of translation here, since the article makes assumptions which aren't necessarily shared by your average Westerner. Nawur district is a Hazāra majority district (Wiki says 100%, which seems highly unlikely, but whatever), which means the people attacked are both Farsi-speaking and probably Shia. The "Kochi" or "Kuchi" are nomadic Pashtuns, who apparently have a nasty case of "what's mine is mine and what's yours is mine but I'll let you use in exchange for ~~tribute~~ consideration".

And given comments elsewhere of five fatalities & the villains responsible being a band of 150 hooligans, I'm thinking that this "26 villages burned" business is actually 26 family compounds or maybe just houses, because the numbers are totally out of whack otherwise.

But this is looking like "bloody borders of Sunni Islam" violence more than typical Taliban warfare.

Posted by Mitch H. 2011-06-19 19:12|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2011-06-19 19:12|| Front Page Top

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