MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan (March 25, 2010) - Afghan National Civil Order Police/Afghan Gendarmerie Force Training Center graduates parade in formation honoring Mohammad Atta Noor, Governor of the Province of Balkh where 193 trainees graduated in the center's first enlisted graduation. (Photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jeff Nevison)
Afghanistan’s Rape Crisis: Villagers Fear U.S.-Backed Militias -- Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau, Daily Beast
Afghans fear the very militias America has set up to protect them—and allegations of sexual violence abound. Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau report.
Jumadin, a 45-year-old farmer from the northern Afghan province of Kunduz, returned to his modest mud-brick home late one evening last January to find the front door shattered. He rushed inside, calling and searching for his 19-year-old daughter, Monizha, who had been home alone while Jumadin’s wife and three other children visited relatives in Pakistan. He was panic-stricken. The small house had been ransacked, and Monizha was nowhere inside. He finally found her just in time: she was outside in the animal shed, trying to hang herself.
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My Comment: The focus in the media is on the U.S. military's rape crisis among it's own troops .... but it appears that this problem is now spreading (if the above story is accurate) to foreign troops that are being trained by US forces abroad. And Afghanistan is not the only place where this is occurring ..... troops of the Congolese Army that were trained by a U.S. Special Forces team went on to commit mass rape and murder of women and children while fleeing rebel forces last year (according to a new United Nations report). And in Mali, the EU seeks to rebuild the Mali army after the U.S. faltered when the troops that they trained staged a coup that produced the mayhem that exists even today.
