TOFor a long time, the Islamic Taliban fought against the government in Afghanistan, financing its fight mainly with income from fasting flour. It is the raw material for making opium and heroin. Less than two years ago, however, the insurgents won the more than twenty-year struggle and regained control over Afghanistan. Last April f Tlibnu Hajbatullh Achndzda issued a ban on fasting flour. And according to the testimony of the BBC, the fighters are more secretive in their anti-drugs than any of their predecessors.
Evidence from the Afghan provinces of Nangarhr, Kandahr, Hlmand and others, as well as analyzes of satellite images, prove it. the times when mountainous land produced more than 80 percent of the world’s opium may soon be a thing of the past. The 2022 harvest that was wiped out by Tlibne had no effect on the 2022 harvest. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), on the contrary, it was one-tenth less.
But there will be a sharp decline this year, according to David Mansfield, a leading expert on the Afghan drug trade. “It is likely that wheat will be grown this year on only 20 percent of the area that was sown with this crop last year. The dream is unprecedented,” declared Mansfield, who works with the British company Alsic, specializing in the analysis of satellite images.
Tlibn did not fulfill his promises. Even a year after his arrival, women can have a long and good job
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This is most visible in Helmand province in the south-west of Afghanistan, where more than half of Afghanistan’s opium was produced. An analysis by the Alsic company shows that wheat flour in Helmand fell by more than 99 percent. “On the high-resolution images, you can see that of the 129,000 hectares of poppy fields in a good year, only about five thousand hectares are sown with flour,” added Mansfield.
A large number of farmers obeyed the Taliban government. To those who did not surrender, neither were the warriors of Tlibn. The commander of the Tlibn unit in Nangarhar, Tr Chhn, said that together with his men, he and his men cleared poppy fields for five months and destroyed thousands of hectares of crops. a family in a small poppy field destroyed ten of them in a few minutes. After the armed lion Tlibnu, a woman with a long beard and dressed in the traditional Afghan dress alvr kamz, i.e. a long shirt and loose pants, get into a pick-up truck and drive to another farm. The warriors of Tlibn go armed, because some peasants are armed with heavy weapons. At least one civilian was killed during such clashes.
On the Afghan fields, mallow is gradually replacing imported crops such as warbler, which, however, represents financial losses for farmers and the resulting problems with family sustenance. “Don’t go to my field. And go home,” shouted Tlibna’s dispersed female warriors, while they ravaged his poppy field. the woman’s son was arrested early and released after a few hours with a warning.
According to the words of Tlibnu Zabhullh Mudhid, opium’s toxicity is not the benefit of its breeding. “We know that the people are poor and suffering. But those millions of the 37 million inhabitants of Afghanistan have encountered drug addiction. This is a great shame,” he said.
The Taliban asked the international community to help the Afghans, who were fighting for their lives due to the destruction of fasting flour. But he does not want to condition help on political issues, such as the destruction caused by women in all non-governmental organizations. “Opium poisons not only Afghanistan, but the whole world. If the Afghans are suffering from this evil, it would be fair for them to receive competent help,” Mudhid asserts.
The destruction of pasturage flour is expected to have an impact on opium prices. In Kandahar, which is the traditional birthplace of Tlibn and has given a significant area of wheat flour, one of the farms shows the type of opium from the harvest. Two plastic cups about the size of a soccer ball are filled with a dark brown substance. “Last year, I would have received a fifth of what I could have received here. But, the price of debt is rising so that our family can make ends meet. Our situation is very bad. We had to take out a loan to buy food. and obleen,” k.
