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Thomas Ruttig

Die erbarmungslose Rückkehr der Taliban

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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 15 August 2018 This extensive analysis of the security situation after the Taleban temporary captured Ghazni city, has some quotes – direct ones and unattributed ones – from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig (in German): Deutsche Afghanistan-Fachleute zeigen sich angesichts der Entwicklungen alarmiert. Denn die Strategie der Regierung in Kabul, ihr Augenmerk auf die […]

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BBC reporter’s terrifying days amid Taliban assault on Ghazni

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BBC, 15 August 2018 “The sun started to go down behind the mountains to the west of the city. Residents were still trapped inside their houses as fighting raged in the streets outside. Many of them were unaware of exactly what was happening elsewhere. …”

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Abschiebungen: Flüchtlingshelfer bangen um ihre afghanischen Schützlinge

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Tagesspiegel, 14 August 2018 The Berlin-based daily has a short quote of AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in this article about growing concerns among refugee supporters that their Afghan clients are being deported by German authorities even when in training or education, something that officially had even been promoted – he calls the deportations “morally shameful”, given […]

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Kämpfe im afghanischen Ghasni: Taliban überrennen Provinzhauptstadt

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Tageszeitung, 14 August 2018 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig summarises the situation in Ghazni during their attack on the provincial capital (in German), With commentary “Emperors without clothes” – about where the Afghan government, military, NATO and donors failed – here.

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Taliban greifen Provinzhauptstadt Ghasni an

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dpa/Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 10 August 2018 AAN is quoted on the security situation in Ghazni prior to the recent attacks, unfortunately incorrectly – the statement about the Taleban presence in almost all districts did not refer to their centres: Die Sicherheit in der Provinz Ghasni hatte sich in den vergangenen Monaten noch einmal verschlechtert. Bereits […]

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Pakistan recruits thousands more troops to guard Afghan border

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The National, 9 August 2018 In this article in the Dubai-based daily, AAN research about cross border routes is quoted: A paper by the Afghanistan Analysts’ Network last year said there were well established “commuting routes” for the Afghan Taliban to travel over the border into Pakistan for rest, training or meetings and then return […]

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Afghan Government Under Fire for Rescuing Islamic State Militants

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Voice of America, 6 August 2018 AAN analysis is quoted in this report about the controversial surrender of pro-IS fighters in the province of Jawzjan, pointing out human rights concerns: The controversial amnesty law marginalizes victims, overlooking their right to justice, said observers with the Kabul-based independent Afghanistan Analysts Network in an article on the […]

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“Abschiebungen sind nicht zu rechtfertigen”

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junge Welt, 30 July 2018 The Berlin-based leftwing daily – where he worked for several years in the early 1990s – has interviewed AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about deportations to Afghanistan (“not justified”) and the related security situation (“worsening”, “country-wide war”) (in German).

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Nangarhar: descent into chaos

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Bureau of Investigative Journalism, 30 July 2018 This report on the worsening security situation in Nangrahar province has a quote from AAN’s Fazal Muzhary: “As part of the war strategy the US even used the ‘mother of all bombs’ [MOAB] in Nangarhar last year, but it did not result in the slightest reduction of violence,” […]

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Abschieben um jeden Preis

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Jungle World, 26 July 2018 The German leftwing weekly briefly quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, from his presentation at the recent First Bavarian Afghanistan Conference in Munich: Auf einer Münchner Konferenz über die Situation in Afghanistan Mitte Juli, zu der unter anderem der Bayerische Flüchtlingsrat, das Wohn- und Kulturzentrum für Geflüchtete »Bellevue di Monaco« und »Jugendliche […]

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Watchdog says U.S. wasted more than $15 billion in past 11 years in Afghanistan

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NBC, 26 July 2018 The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) charged with tracking government spending in Afghanistan has released its first estimate of the total amount of money wasted there — a staggering $15.5 billion over 11 years — but says even that figure is “likely … only a portion of the total waste, […]

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Abschiebung nach Afghanistan: “Ich habe Angst”

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MDR, 25 July 2018 In this part of the TV news magazine “Exakt” by the Saxony state public broadcaster that researched the whereabouts and living conditions of three recently deported rejected Afghan asylum seekers from that state contains some quotes from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the general situation in Afghanistan (in German)

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