Volume 51, Number 2 · February 12, 2004
The Mess in Afghanistan
By Ahmed Rashid
PUBLICATIONS CITED IN THIS ARTICLE
Afghanistan's Bonn Agreement One Year Later: A Catalog of Missed Opportunities
by Human Rights Watch
a briefing paper, 12 pp., December 5, 2002
"We Want to Live as Humans": Repression of Women and Girls in Western Afghanistan
by Human Rights Watch
a report, 50 pp., December 2002
All Our Hopes Are Crushed: Violence and Repression in Western Afghanistan
by Human Rights Watch
a report, 52 pp., November 2002
"Killing You Is a Very Easy Thing for Us": Human Rights Abuses in Southeast Afghanistan
by Human Rights Watch
a report, 102 pp., July 2003
Afghanistan: Are We Losing the Peace?
by an Independent Task Force cosponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations and the Asia Society
a report, 24 pp., June 2003
The Situation in Afghanistan and Its Implications for International Peace and Security
by Kofi Annan to the General Assembly of the United Nations
a report, 20 pp., December 3, 2003
In late December 2001 Hamid Karzai set out for Kabul for the first time since the defeat of the Taliban. He had been fighting along with his fellow Kandahari tribesmen in the last battle against the Taliban over control of his home city. Earlier in December all the anti-Taliban Afghan factions, under the auspices of the United Nations, had signed an agreement at Bonn, which chose him as chairman of the new interim government of Afghanistan.
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