Will Narco-trafficking ever stop in Afghanistan?

Type :

Presentation

Pages :

8 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

01/16/2009

Category :

Arts & media

Sub category :

Journalism

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Summary :

Introduction.
Opium cultivation: Increas in the post 9.11 Afghanistan.
1. Poppy culture in Afghanistan: Reasons why it appeared.
2. Opium is still a mainstay of this highly unstable society.
Usual methods used for the drug wars.
1. The failure of the application of the past drug wars.
2. The particularities that make the Afghan case totally unique.
Alternative solutions.
1. A licensed opium culture could avoid many problems.
2. This 'solution' raises many other points and remains nearly utopian.
Conclusion.
Bibliography.

Abstract

Since December 1979 and the Soviet Christmas invasion of the country, we could say that peace has never been satisfactorily reached again in the country. The Afghan War has firstly destroyed the country from 1979 to 1989 and caused the death of nearly 2 million civilian victims among the Afghan people and then the Enduring Freedom Operation for which no civilian toll is available, which seems quite mysterious. This country has been the theatre of devastation for more than three decades, without any tangible results. Today's situation may appear more satisfying since there is an elected president since 2004 and the nations re-building process is supposed to be in progress. Actually, today's afghanistan seem to be reviving his old demons, with an endemic corruption of the whole state, war lords acting as local kings in their respective provincial strongholds and opium trafficking increasing substantially.