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1 year agoThe sticks are used to destroy the fields, not beat people
That was my point exactly.
But invoking the spectre of “Sharia law” is just as vague as referring to “US law”.
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May I suggest you read the article before commenting
Armed with little more than sticks, teams of counter-narcotics brigades travel the country, cutting down Afghanistan’s poppy fields.
3·1 year agonot in Australia
click on the link, I dare you.
Speaking to Sky News Australia, Assange’s brother Shipton said the news showed the US was seeking to end it’s “extremely controversial” prosecution.
“This indication from the Ambassador Caroline Kennedy shows that the US administration is looking for an off-ramp,” Mr Shipton said.
"They’ve been pursuing Julian for the past 13 years for publishing evidence of corruption, for publishing evidence of war crimes and they’re now deciding that there is a solution available.
“This is a sign that they don’t want this playing out in American courts, particularly during an election cycle, so the US administration is really looking for an off-ramp here for what is an extremely, extremely controversial press freedom prosecution.”
Asked what the outcome of a potential deal could be, Mr Shipton suggested he would expect Assange to be freed completely upon his return to Australia, saying he had already “paid” a significant price for his actions.
“Julian has been in prison for four year, he been detained one way or another for 13 years,” he said.
“This is the price that he has paid, this is the price that his family has paid as well.”
iirc there was barely any opium production in Afghanistan pre-2001 under Taliban rule. It was in the following 20 years that the industry boomed and a lot of those government officials you refer to and their relatives got extremely rich from that, including President Karzai’s own little brother. The US put those people in power and propped them up for over 2 decades. It’s pretty clear the US decision-makers tried to eradicate poppy just as little as they tried to create peace in the region (not at all).