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Corruption is flowering in the shadow of the Afghanistan war. A new report published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime reveals that bribery consumes an amount equal to 23 percent of the GDP of Afghanistan. Afghans are forced by corrupt government culture to pay more than a third of their income in bribes. Earlier this month, the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction reported that 3/4 of all their active corruption investigations involved at least one Westerner.
Originally posted at Rethink Afghanistan.
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Derrick, take a gander at my latest diary…! ;-)
Nice. Well done.
I guess that the investigations aren’t quite as active when they involve Taliban “tax collection”.
Irrelevant to the point made above…doesn’t change a single thing for a family that has to pay a third of it’s $425 annual income in bribes to the “legitimate” Afghan government. The “ZOMG THE TALIBAN IS TEH WORSE!” excuse is getting very old.