organization:afghan local police

US military attacked for complicity in Afghan child soldiers after boy’s murder
▻http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/04/afghanistan-child-soldier-taliban-us-military-afghan-local-police

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Created in 2010, the Afghan Local Police, known as ALP, is largely an invention of the US military, and was initially overseen by elite US special operations forces. Critics have long pointed to persistent human-rights abuse allegations within an entity they fear provides cover for the empowerment of militias.

According to a US government audit in October, the US Defense Department has provided $469.7m to the ALP from inception through April 2015, and estimates that the force will cost approximately $121m annually to sustain.

The same audit chided the Pentagon for lacking plans to disband the ALP or transition its 30,000 fighters to the official security services after US sponsorship ends, a switch currently slated for September.

#enfants_soldats #milices #etats-unis #Afghanistan

En septembre 2011 HRW écrivait ▻http://www.hrw.org/fr/news/2011/09/12/afghanistan-le-gouvernement-devrait-juguler-les-milices-et-la-police-locale-afg

Les milices et certaines unités de la nouvelle Police locale afghane (ALP) soutenues [créées] par les États-Unis commettent de graves violations des droits humains (...) en toute impunité

Le « LA Times » nous apprend maintenant que le régime étatsunien va consacrer $1.2 billion pour augmenter leur nombre et les former/armer afin de s’assurer que les Taliban ne reprendront pas le pouvoir une fois les troupes étasuniennes retirées :
▻http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-afghan-police-20130211,0,5413205,full.story

WASHINGTON — In an effort to fight the insurgency after U.S. troops leave Afghanistan by the end of next year, officials in Washington and Kabul are planning to dramatically expand a 3-year-old rural police force that has been implicated in human rights abuses and criminal activity.

The plan by the U.S. Special Operations Command would extend a financial lifeline from the Pentagon to the Afghan Local Police for at least five more years, providing $1.2 billion to train, arm and pay 45,000 fighters, up from a current force of 19,600, according to senior U.S. officials and planning documents.

#our-sob (son of a bitch) #hégémonie-bienveillante

Afghanistan: Rein in Abusive Militias and Afghan Local Police | Human Rights Watch
►http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/09/12/afghanistan-rein-abusive-militias-and-afghan-local-police

Militias and some units of the new US-backed Afghan Local Police are committing serious human rights abuses, but the government is not providing proper oversight or holding them accountable, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The Afghan government and the US should sever ties with irregular armed groups and take immediate steps to create properly trained and vetted security forces that are held accountable for their actions.