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Broken promises forcing former 'reformed' Taliban insurgents to rejoin ranks | Former Taliban insurgents, who surrendered their weapons to the Afghan government under a reconciliation program, have said that they have no choice, but to go back to
fighting as the government has broken promises of providing land and money to them. Former Taliban commander Mohammed Gul, who renounced his insurgent past after the Afghanistan government persuaded him two years ago, said that he is
itching to rejoin the battle. "This is my obligation, to go back and start fighting.
The government said it would give me land and a job if I left the Taliban. They
have broken those promises. Now I will break them," The Globe and Mail quoted
Gul, as saying. In 2007, several thousand fighters surrendered throughout the
country and Gul's situation reveals the challenges facing Afghanistan's underfunded
and often counterproductive efforts to persuade Taliban insurgents to defect.
In the past four years, three million pounds has been steered toward Taliban reconciliation,
but evidence on the ground suggests the highly touted program has been a failure.
"We have broken many promises. The government has broken many promises," said
General Khan Mohammed, co-director of the Kandahar office of the Afghanistan National
Independent Peace and Reconciliation Commission. |
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