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Afghanistan: 'Tea is sometimes all I have to give my hungry baby' (www.bbc.co.uk)

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[-] DarkGamer@kbin.social 52 points 11 months ago

The Taliban are the worst, It was a real shame that afghanis caved so quickly to them.

[-] NateNate60@lemmy.world 39 points 11 months ago

People get blinded by religious extremism. Those that don't generally just want to live in peace and don't want to fight wars to maintain a fragile government that wasn't even that great to begin with.

We all like to think of ourselves as brave souls who would put down our lives for our ideals but at the end of the day most of us will not actually stand up when the time comes to it.

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 21 points 11 months ago

Afghanistan simply did not have the national consciousness necessary for Afghans to come together in opposition to the Taliban, which was united on ideological/religious grounds.

[-] DarkGamer@kbin.social 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Which is a shame because they seemed like they were on a trajectory to become a modern country in the 70's. Today, they are positively mediaeval. It seems like religion has ruined the region.

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

Sadly, much more complex than religion. But yes, it's terrible how much potential has been wasted and how many lives ruined.

[-] Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com 12 points 11 months ago

Sadly, the Taliban isn't even the worst. They're now fighting insurgents from ISIS-K, which is an even more violent and oppressive terrorist group.

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 10 points 11 months ago

Funny how it can always get worse. Not ha-ha funny, though.

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[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 45 points 11 months ago

Watching the Taliban try and be a functioning government, and getting chewed out by both their own people and the international community, has been fascinating to watch.

[-] MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

its working as intended. Warlords rich now

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"I asked one Taliban brother, what do I feed my children if I don't earn? He said give them poison but don't come outside your home," she says. "Two times the Taliban government gave me some money, but it is nowhere close to enough."

[-] mwguy@infosec.pub 1 points 11 months ago

That part stuck with me. The Taliban would rather children die en-mass then women sell knickknacks on a street corner.

[-] suction@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

You can accuse the Taliban of a lot of things, but not that they aren’t thinking practically.

[-] suction@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

And for all the northern Brits in here: By „tea“ she doesn’t mean „dinner“.

[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Alright hen, come in. Ye'll have had yer tea?

[-] autotldr 5 points 11 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Or I soak bread in tea and then feed it to her," Sohaila Niyazi says, sitting on the floor of her mud brick home up a hill in eastern Kabul.

The tea that Sohaila refers to is what's traditionally drunk in Afghanistan, made with green leaves and hot water, without any milk or sugar.

Doctors have told us that while it's less harmful than the tranquilisers and anti-depressants we have found being given by some Afghan parents to their hungry children, in higher doses the medicine can cause respiratory distress.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was paying the salaries of health workers, and funding medicines and food at more than 30 hospitals - an emergency stopgap measure implemented following the regime change in 2021.

They have all had their pay cut by half," Dr Mohammad Iqbal Sadiq, the Taliban-appointed medical director of the hospital, tells us.

Did he recognise that Taliban policies were a part of the problem too; that donors didn't want to give money to a country where the government had imposed stringent restrictions on women?

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[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Mothers don't raise your son's to follow Allah.

[-] mwguy@infosec.pub 2 points 11 months ago

Unfortunately Islam has impoverished the Arabic, Northern African and Central Asian nations for 1000 years, and the way it's going it's gonna impoverish them for the next 1000 years too.

[-] naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca -2 points 11 months ago

Afghanistan has always been one of the poorest countries on the planet. The Taliban-mandated stop in opium production collapsed their economy further. This is the aftermath of ceasing opium production more than anything else.

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