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Malalai Joya: Corruption in Afghanistan

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Length: 1 min 20 sec

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Year of Production: 2006

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Carol Mark

Malalali Joya is an Afghani women's activist turned politician. Because of her criticism of the country's warlords, she now lives under constant death threats. In this clip, Malalai Joya says that the country's money is not going toward helping the people of Afghanistan. She says warlords are buying buildings for themselves, not for the people. She says she knows of refugees' children that died from exposure to the cold weather because they had nowhere to stay.

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corruption in afghanistan

by Shai

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 20:25

There is a good book I just read about corruption in Afghanistan. It's called Turbulence.....think the website is www.turbulencethebook.com. The author Nadir Atash witnessed firsthand systematic corruption in the government and it's not as black and white as you would think. It's a mafia network and I'm not convinced it is just Afghans who are behind it. I was shocked after reading this book what can happen to someone if they try to after the bad guys in Afghanistan.