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Thomas Ruttig

The Making of a Refugee Part 1: A map of arriving

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Himal, 22 March 2019 In part 1 of a series –on Afghan refugees in Germany, the Kathmandu-based online magazine AAN research on refugees arriving in Germany in quoted.

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Interview zur Lage in Afghanistan: Thomas Ruttig, Afghanistan Analysts Network

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Deutschlandfunk, 21 March 2019 Listen to an interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig with the German public broadcaster about the current security situation and the peace talks in Afghanistan, on the day of the extension of the Bundeswehr mandate for Mission Resolute Support in Afghanistan (in German).

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In A First, Tehran Honors Beleaguered Afghan Community

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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 21 March 2019 After a few TV serials on Iranian TV seen as discriminatory against Afghans, with Tehran Mayor Piroz Hanachi for the first time a high-ranking Iranian official has publicly appreciated the role of Afghan migrant labourers to his city, saying that Tehran owed much of its beauty to Afghans. […]

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Is Germany reassessing its role in Afghanistan?

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Deutsche Welle, 20 March 2019 A very short quote from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on Germany’s offer to host a third Afghanistan conference: Without an agreement on […] crucial issues, experts say, it would be difficult for Germany to host a third Bonn conference. “We are not there yet,” Thomas Ruttig, co-director of the Afghanistan Analysts […]

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Life inside Kabul’s fortified green zone for foreigners: ‘don’t expect a blossoming social life’

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Reuters, 19 March 2019 A quote from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, on the so-called Green Zone in Kabul, besides a few euphemistic remarks by diplomats: The development of the green zone, including Nato’s military base, in the middle of a crowded city showed “sheer disrespect” for the security of local people, said Thomas Ruttig, co-director of […]

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Afghanistan: Was nach dem Krieg kommt

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Die Zeit, 14 March 2019 An op-ed by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig for the website of a leading German weekly newspaper, discussing what impact a peace and power sharing agreement with the Taleban would have for Afghans – and also how far the current government is really an alternative (in German). This includes a podcast.

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Demob unhappy: Afghans worry about the return of Shia fighters from Syria’s civil war

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The Economist, 14 March 2019 AAN’s S Reza Kazemi is quoted in this article (with its unnecessarily dramatising first part of the headline) – as an “academic” – as saying: Yet Iran would struggle to mobilise the Fatemiyoun inside Afghanistan, says Said Reza Kazemi, an academic. There would also be great resistance among Afghan Shias […]

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Bette Dam: The Secret Life of Mullah Omar

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ZOMIA, February 2019 Acquaint yourself with Bette Dam’s much discussed and much attacked findings about late Taleban founder and leader Mullah Muhammad Omar, here in an extensive English summary of her book which is so far only available in Dutch.

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Commemoration in the Basement: Kabul’s hidden war victims museum (2)

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With the Afghanistan Centre for Memories and Dialogue, a new museum dedicated to the victims of the Afghan wars of the last four decades and their families has opened in Kabul in February this year. It was initially supposed to be housed in the capital’s landmark Behzad cinema but now is confined to a provisional […]

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Gedenkfeier mit Politikern in Kabul mit Granaten beschossen

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dpa/Der Standard, 7 March 2019 In a report on the IS-claimed attack on the commemoration of Shia leader Abdul Ali Mazari’s death anniversary in Kabul, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted on the strength of ISKP (in German): Laut dem Afghanistan-Experten Thomas Ruttig von der Denkfabrik Afghanistan Analysts Network ist der IS-Ableger in Afghanistan insgesamt geschwächt […]

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Kaboul se prépare au retour des talibans

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Le Figaro, 6 March 2019 Quotes from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in this article (in French and behind a paywall): “It is difficult to imagine a peace deal without a power sharing with the Taleban.”

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‘Greening the desert’: What drives militants’ environmentalism?

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The New Arab, 5 March 2019 In this article which discusses the question of whether demands for environmental protections by groups from al-Qaeda to the Taleban are propaganda or genuine concern, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted as pointing to another aspect of the Afghan war: “The United States has destroyed many orchards in Kandahar, which is […]

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