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October 3, 2005

Afghanistan: Opium Farmers Sell Daughters To Pay Off Traffickers

In a report from today's Independent, opium farmers in Afghanistan, prevented from growing their produce have been forced to resort to extreme measures to pay off the drug traffickers - they have been made to hand over their daughters to the opium exporters.

Opium accounts for 60% of Afghanistan's economy, and the trade continues despite measures by NATO peacekeepers to curtail its production. The news of daughters being given away comes from Nangahar province, where the British who protect the region have claimed the largest success in banning the opium trade. While the nation's opium production fell by 21%, in Nangahar it dropped by 96%. Drug dealers had loaned farmers here money to buy opium seeds, but with no harvest, they seek compensation. Apparently, even though the opium trade has been virtually eradicated here, the authorities have given no assistance to farmers to produce other, legal, crops.

There have been reports that in the highland regions, helicopters have been spraying the land with herbicides, though the UK authorities deny this. The Afghan government opposed US suggestions for spraying.

Richard Danziger, of the International Organisation for Migrants, says that when poppy farmers in northern Afghanistan have a good crop it means they do not have to sell their children.

A French policy think-tank, the Senlis Council suggested that opium cultivation should be legalised; where 87% of the world's illegal opium is grown here, there is a shortage of opiate medicines in Afghani hospitals. Their proposal, scoffed at by the US and the UN Office for Drug Control, was rejected by the Afghan government.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at October 3, 2005 10:13 AM

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