Americas Afghanistan government beats journalist

national | miscellaneous | news report Friday March 28, 2003 09:52 by James McKenna jimmymac61 at hotmail dot com

Don't ask questions about human rights

US puppet governor of Herat province, Ismail Khan Beat interrogated and expelled journalist Ahmed Shah Behzad. His crime - he asked the wrong questions at the opening of covering the opening of the Herat office of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission.

Paris-based media rights group Reporters Without Borders has condemned authorities in western Afghanistan for beating and expelling an Afghan journalist working for U.S.-funded Radio Free Afghanistan

Governor Khan did not like the questions Mr. Behzad was asking on March 19 at the Human Rights Watch opening. He insulted the journalist and ordered him out of the building. Mr. Behzad was then beaten and interrogated for six hours before he being released. On March 24, the governor expelled Mr. Behzad .

Meanwhile in an Afghan government report on opium production compiled in along with the United Nations, it has been states that farmers throughout the country are growing a record number of opium poppy plants. The government said opium production is increasing in most provinces. Now the Cocaine Importation Agency (CIA) will have a new brand product to sell to any Western youth qustioning authority.

This is Americas "Democracy" ? Where is the promised election to replace the US selected "interim government"?