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| | Afghanistan: Warlords Implicated in New Abuses (Human Rights Watch Press release, New York, July 29, 2003) |
 | | The report warns that violence, political intimidation, and attacks on women and girls are discouraging political participation and endangering gains made on women's rights in Afghanistan over the last year. |
 | | The 101-page report, "Killing You Is a Very Easy Thing for Us": Human Rights Abuses in Southeast Afghanistan, documents army and police troops kidnapping Afghans and holding them for ransom in unofficial prisons; breaking into households and robbing families; raping women, girls and boys; and extorting shopkeepers and bus, truck and taxi drivers. |
 | | The subject area of the report, the southeast of Afghanistan and Kabul city, is one of the most densely populated areas of Afghanistan. |
| www.hrw.org /press/2003/07/afghan072903.htm (946 words) |
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