Missbrauch in Afghanistan: Die Tanzknaben vom Hindukusch

In Afghanistan halten sich einflussreiche Männer Jungs im Alter zwischen elf und sechzehn Jahren zum erotischen Zeitvertreib. Die UN wollen dagegen vorgehen. Doch das „Knabenspiel“ hat Tradition.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Missbrauch in Afghanistan: Die Tanzknaben vom Hindukusch (22-05-2011)

Reintegration In Afghanistan Hinges On Fate Of Turncoat Taliban

Mullah Noorul Aziz: "We have to live peacefully here because we are the sons of the soil. He [Karzai] promised to share with us whatever is available to him and his people. [He promised] that we will have cars, houses, and jobs like people now siding with the government. [He said] their open embrace is waiting for us."

In many ways, the fate of the government's reintegration effort lies in the fate of Aziz who just earlier this year had been appointed the Taliban's shadow governor of the northern Kunduz Province.

Bij Radio Free Europe:
http://www.rferl.org/content/afghanistan_reintegration_hinges_on_fate_of_turncoat_taliban/24177671.html

Training trainers: coalition mentors produce Afghan instructors, trainers, Camp Mike Spann

The Regional Military Training Center – North, under the Afghan National Army Training Command, is hosting the first Train the Instructor class, charged with training ANA military instructors as the nation moves toward an independent military and peacekeeping force.

The inaugural class graduates May 17, 2011.

As with any training program, new instructors will eventually be needed to replace the current ones as they move forward with their careers.

The Train the Instructor class will identify the top graduates and train them further. Those students will attend the Master Skills Instructor Course and learn to teach the classes they just attended. All this will occur under the direct oversight of the Remote Basic Warrior Training mentor team.

NATO Training Mission Afghanistan:
http://ntm-a.com/wordpress2/?p=4234

FOB Camp Mike Spann, located north of Mazar-e Sharif, is an outpost in the vicinity of Masar-e-Sharif.

Afghan National Army, Regional Military Training Center (RMTC) at Camp Shaheen, Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan. The site is located in Balkh Province, Dihadi District.

Don't abandon Afghanistan after 2014 handover, plead generals

British commander voices fears that Taliban will exploit power vacuum in Afghanistan after west quits (Nick Hopkins in Kabul, the Guardian, Tuesday 10 May)

The west must state clearly that it will not abandon Afghanistan after the handover of security to local forces in 2014 or risk further fighting in the region from an emboldened Taliban, General James Bucknall, the commander of British forces in the country has warned.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/10/afghanistan-taliban-handover-2014