Video In less than forty years, Afghanistan has become the world’s largest producer of drugs. A traffic that has largely benefited from Afghan armed groups, including Taliban.
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In August 2021, the Taliban invest the presidential palace of Kabul and take power in Afghanistan. This is the close conclusion of VNGT years of conflict that required considerable resources. Where do Afghan armed groups find so much money?
The answer is partly in a pretty pink flower: the sleeping mounted poppy. It is from it that we produce opium and manufactures heroin. Drug traffic has developed considerably these last forty years in Afghanistan.
And despite the eradication campaigns, American bombings and repeated droughts, it still represented, in 2019, about 10% of the country’s GDP. Traffic that has greatly benefited from Afghan armed groups, including Taliban. Here’s how.
Sources:
- World Drug Reports:
- Afghanistan opium survey: 2020 , 2019 , 2006
- Reports of the International Bureau of Narcotics for the United Nations: 1998 , 1999
- Disclassed document from the CIA, 1995, National Security Archive
- Still Water Runs Deep: Illicit Poppy and The Transformation of the Deserts of Southwest Afghanistan, Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, David Mansfield, 2018
- Map of Afghanistan with Mineralized Areas , USGS 2007