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Afghans Not Giving Up Guns
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http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/breaking/0121arms21.html Afghans unwilling to give up weaponsChicago TribuneJan. 21, 2002 BAGRAM, Afghanistan - Career militiaman Abdul Shaker fingers the trigger of his trusted Kalashnikov and fires off a verbal warning to the 60 international donors meeting this week in Tokyo to discuss rebuilding his war-torn homeland. With terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden apparently still on the loose, the enemy Taliban still lording over part of the country, and lawlessness rampant in cities and villages, neither Shaker nor thousands of Afghans are about to surrender their weapons for promises of aid money, he says. "Prove to us that there is peace, give us jobs, and pay us for our guns," Shaker says, standing near several armed buddies Sunday morning at a dusty gun exchange here. "Then we will gladly give up our weapons. Until then, we will fight with anyone who tries to take our guns." While the priority of the two-day conference in Japan was to sketch out a program to pump more than $15 billion in international aid into Afghanistan, education, health and sanitary needs are high on the agenda. So too are the establishment of a functioning government and the creation of a stable currency. Little progress will be made, however, if Afghanistan's 20 feuding ethnic groups refuse to disarm, international aid groups warn. Massive relief efforts depend on security. Roads in southwestern Afghanistan are controlled by armed thugs and feuding militias, making delivery of aid and food impossible. There are tens of thousands of weapons in Afghan hands that are left over from a quarter-century of wars. Afghans find it hard to feel secure these days with so many guns on the streets and in the vast expanse of mountains and isolated valleys. Yet few Afghans are willing to be the first to give up their weapons.
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