Heroinproduktionen i Afghanistan 40-dubblades efter NATO:s invasion

NATO - Heroinets välgörare i Afghanistan

RT-2013-04-03
Heroinproduktionen 40-dubblades i Afghanistan efter NATO:s "frihetsinvasion av landet." USA:s "war against terror" har därmed inte bara 40-dubblat terroristerna i världen utan även heroinet i Afghanistan. Heroinet från Afghanistan har därefter orsakat över 1 miljon dödsfall globalt och enorma mängder annat elände.

Över tusen miljarder dollar är den nätta förtjänsten de internationella organiserade brottssyndikaten tjänat genom den lönsamma försäljningen av heroinet. Uppgifterna om detta framkom nyligen på en konferens angående narkotikasituationen i Afghanistan.

Opiumproduktion blev helt enkelt den centrala delen av Afghanistans ekonomi efter att USA och NATO invaderat landet 2001.

Tiden kort före USA och väst bestämde sig för att invadera Afghanistan 2001, hade Talibanerna vid makten totalförbjudit bönderna i landet att odla opium och bränt ner ett stort antal opiumfält.

Talibanerna hade även deklarerat att all opiumodling stod i strid med Islam och var att betrakta som en allvarlig synd. Detta gjorde att narkotikaproduktionen i Afghanistan sjönk radikalt när Talibanerna styrde landet.

Direkt efter USA:s och västs invasion, så återupptogs heroinproduktionen i full skala och idag står Afghanistan för ungefär 90 procent av världens totala opiumleveranser.

Största delen av dessa leveranser hamnar på gatorna inom EU och i Ryssland.

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Video uppladdad den 27 nov 2011

America's approach to tackling the flow of illegal drugs from Afghanistan is misguided. This criticism from Russia's anti-drugs chief who believes a complete eradication of poppy fields is the only solution - a position not currently shared by the U.S.

However, this reluctance now has some asking if the deadly business is proving simply too lucrative to destroy.

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RT-2013-04-03
Heroin production in Afghanistan increased 40 times since NATO began its ‘War on Terror’ in 2001, the head of Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service stated, adding that more than 1million people have died from Afghan heroin since then.

“Afghan heroin has killed more than 1 million people worldwide since the ‘Operation Enduring Freedom’ began and over a trillion dollars has been invested into transnational organized crime from drug sales,” Viktor Ivanov said at the conference on the drug situation in Afghanistan.

Ivanov stressed that the main factor of instability in the war-torn country remains the prosperous heroin industry.

"Any impartial observer must admit the sad fact that the international community has failed to curb heroin production in Afghanistan since the start of NATO’s operation.”

According to his presentation at UN’s 56th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna on March 11, opium growth has increased by 18 per cent from 131,000 hectares to 154,000.

As the situation in Afghanistan changed with NATO withdrawing its troops, Russia along with Afghanistan and the international community must face the new reality and develop an efficient strategy to deal with the heroin problem, explained Ivanov.

Opium production has been central to Afghanistan’s economy ever since US and NATO forces invaded in October 2001. Just before the invasion Taliban had implemented a ban on poppy growing, declaring it to be anti-Islam, which lowered the overall production. But after the West’s involvement, production resumed and now the country produces some 90 per cent of the world’s opium, the great bulk of which ends up on the streets of Europe and Russia.

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Publicerad den 12 sep 2012

Abby Martin speaks to Fariba Nawa about opium production in Afghanistan.

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Heroinproduktionen i Afghanistan 40-dubblades efter NATO:s invasion