{"id":1725,"date":"2003-09-22T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-22T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2003-09-22T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-22T18:35:00","slug":"smells-like-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/09\/22\/14\/35\/smells-like-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Smells Like Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrw.org\/campaigns\/afghanistan\/\">How is Afghanistan doing<\/a>?<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/print\/0,3858,4756139-108920,00.html\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a series of extraordinary reports, the latest published in July, Human Rights Watch has documented atrocities &#8220;committed by gunmen and warlords who were propelled into power by the United States and its coalition partners after the Taliban fell in 2001&#8221; and who have &#8220;essentially hijacked the country&#8221;. The report describes army and police troops controlled by the warlords kidnapping villagers with impunity and holding them for ransom in unofficial prisons; the widespread rape of women, girls and boys; routine extortion, robbery and arbitrary murder. Girls&#8217; schools are burned down. &#8220;Because the soldiers are targeting women and girls,&#8221; the report says, &#8220;many are staying indoors, making it impossible for them to attend school [or] go to work.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrw.org\/reports\/2003\/afghanistan0703\/\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Afghanistan\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds window of opportunity is closing fast. A new constitution and national elections are on the horizon, and warlords and abusive military commanders are becoming more and more entrenched. &#8230; The three main types of abuse documented in this report are violent criminal offenses\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdarmed robbery, extortion, and kidnappings\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdcommitted by army troops, police, and intelligence agents; governmental attacks on media and political actors; and violations of the human rights of women and girls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How is Afghanistan doing? In a series of extraordinary reports, the latest published in July, Human Rights Watch has documented atrocities &#8220;committed by gunmen and warlords who were propelled into power by the United&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}