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Afghanistan: Returned Refugees, Police Fatigue
and Freezing Children
Written by: Global Voices
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There has been a series of articles on the plight of Afghanistan's police. Bipasha Ray notes one of the many problems facing the creation of a police force from scratch:
[There are] overworked and grossly underpaid and under-equipped policemen on the verge of mutinying, in charge of enormous swaths of land.He also notices a report about returning refugees from Iran and Pakistan:
It finds that these young men and women find a degree of strength from the fact that they are now in their watan (homeland) even though they know very little about Afghanistan. But they are open to leaving Afghanistan if they face severe material or emotional misery â€" i.e. they don’t have a strong sense of attachment to Afghanistan.(more…) View original post.
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