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Titolo: Ricostruzione a Kabul

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Taliban dopo questo esempio di "ricostruzione".
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/21/international/asia/21KABU.html?th
Housing Plan for Top Aides in Afghanistan Draws Rebuke
By CARLOTTA GALL
KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 20 - Outrage over a plan to build high-end
residences in central Kabul for government officials is threatening to
discredit the 20-month-old administration of President Hamid Karzai.
 The accusations come as Mr. Karzai enters the last year of his
current term and he prepares for another foreign tour to raise money
to rebuild. His government has already been losing support because of
perceived injustices and the government's slowness in its
reconstruction efforts.
 To build the new housing, which would be for Afghan cabinet
ministers, government officials and mujahedeen commanders, a crew of
100 armed police officers with bulldozers started demolishing the
modest mud-walled houses of about 30 families two weeks ago.
 The crew broke down walls of 12 houses, injuring at least two
children who were inside, residents said. In scuffles with the
residents, the police beat several with rifle butts, residents said,
leaving at least two men with cuts on their heads.
"We received no warning," said Rahmat Shah, a former army colonel who
lived in one of the houses with his wife and 10 children. "We faced
armed people who said our houses were rubbish." Some families have
repaired their damaged homes and refuse to leave.
The United Nations Human Rights Commission's special representative
for housing, Miloon Kothari, was in Kabul at the time. He criticized
the evictions and also questioned a system that allowed government
officials to receive land and housing ahead of half a million people
who have applied for land allocations in the city.
 He accused the defense minister, Marshal Muhammad Qasim Fahim, and
the capital's police chief, Abdul Basir Salangi, of being behind the
action and said they should be removed from office. He also implicated
the education minister, Yunus Qanooni.
 "The governmental authorities should not be involved in any processes
that lead to further dispossession of the vast majority of the people
of Afghanistan," Mr. Kothari said in an interview.
The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission then published a list
of 29 names of government ministers, mujahedeen commanders and local
officials who had received plots of land in the area, known as
Shirpur. As many as 300 officials have received plots, and all but 4
of the 32 cabinet ministers have accepted land, commission members
said.
 "Any minister who accepts this, knowing the price is low, is liable
and not being honest," Mr. Kothari said. "People see the land-grabbing
and corruption."
Evidently angry, Mr. Karzai denounced the plans and ordered an inquiry
and a freeze on building in the neighborhood. "The government will
resolve any issue around this and any mismanagement," his spokesman,
Jawed Ludin, said at a weekly briefing. Then, on Wednesday, Mr. Karzai
replaced the police chief, Mr. Salangi.
Cabinet ministers who admitted benefiting from the plan denied any
part in the attempted evictions, but defended their right to land or
housing in the capital. One said she had accepted the land as part of
a plan to provide secure housing for the cabinet. Four of those
interviewed said Mr. Karzai had signed a plan last year for the
development.
A Defense Ministry spokesman denied that Marshal Fahim was involved in
any wrongdoing. He said that the land distribution and demolition
orders came from the mayor's office and that the presidential palace
had agreed to them.
 Mr. Karzai's spokesman denied the president approved the plan. 
A man who identified himself only as Hakim, an engineer who lives
across from the development, said that he and his neighbors had
watched as high walls rose and that builders had told him the new
housing belonged to Marshal Fahim, his cousin and several of his
generals.

guerriglieri Taliban dopo questo esempio di "ricostruzione".
Perche' dovrebbero se come dice l'articolo e' una idea di solo tre
personaggi del governo?
-Stefano