donderdag 23 februari 2006

Nederland en Afghanistan 39














De Afghaanse papavervelden staan er weer goed bij. Met een beetje goede wil kunnen Nederlandse militairen straks zo aan de slag bij de wederopbouw van de opiumhandel die de Afghaanse krijgsheren nog rijker en machtiger maakt en met wie de Nederlandse troepen gaan samenwerken, zoals ze dat nu al doen in andere delen van het land. Natuurlijk blijft er dan ook wat aan de strijkstok hangen zoals blijkt uit Nederlandse marinemensen die ineens betrokken blijken te zijn bij de cocainehandel die ze hadden moeten bestrijden. Dat is niet zo vreemd want we blijven immers een handelsnatie, die in het verleden via de opbrengsten van onze opiumhandel het koloniaal bestuur van 'ons Indie' financierden. De Independent bericht: 'British Army helpless as Afghan drug crop doubles. The enormity of the problems in tackling Afghanistan's massive opium crop has become apparent as the first wave of British troops are deployed in one of the most dangerous parts of the country. British Government ministers had repeatedly declared that one of the primary tasks of the 5,700- strong expeditionary force was to help end Afghan heroin production, which supplies 90 per cent of the narcotic in Britain. But the commander of the British forces in southern Iraq insisted yesterday that his troops would play no part in destroying poppy fields, while senior British civil servants cautioned that ending cultivation may take years." After all, it took 30 years to end opium production in Thailand under much more benign circumstances," said Nick Kay, the United Kingdom's regional co-ordinator for southern Afghanistan. "Considering the problems in Afghanistan one can see it will not be an easy process." Col Gordon Messenger of the Royal Marines said that British troops deploying to Helmand, the biggest centre of heroin production in the biggest heroin-producing country in the world, would not be involved in a process being considered by President Hamid Karzai's government of eradicating poppies. "There will be absolutely no maroon berets [of the marines] with scythes in a poppy field," he said.' Lees verder:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article347129.ece

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