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Women's rights in Afghanistan abysmal after long, costly war
Posted by unhappycamper in Women's Rights
Tue Nov 29th 2011, 07:13 AM
Women's rights in Afghanistan abysmal after long, costly war
By Neil Swanson, Vancouver Sun November 29, 2011 1:00 AM

I wish someone in Stephen Harper's government could explain definitively, what the Canadian mission in Afghanistan was attempting to accomplish.

When we finally pull out, 159 young men (to date) will have sacrificed their lives. And according to one government report, it will have cost $18.1 billion dollars. And for what?

It sure wasn't for a fair, democratic and just society.

What we have is a government that allows a barbaric judicial system to imprison women for being sexually assaulted or raped, while the offender is totally exonerated of any crime.
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