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Unpaid soldiers spark crimewave in Kabul
Kidnap, theft and murder follow city's fall
Rory Carroll in Kabul
Saturday December 15, 2001
The Guardian
Gangs of Northern Alliance soldiers have unleashed a
crimewave of looting and killing in Kabul which is
awakening nostalgia for the Taliban.
Lawlessness is creeping into daily life, after six
years of Taliban order, in the form of robberies,
extortion and murder aimed at the few Kabul residents
with visible wealth.
Parts of the city have become no-go areas for taxi
drivers after a spate of abductions and roadside
executions of their colleagues by soldiers loyal to
the new Afghan government.
Many of the fighters have not been paid since July and
admit they are hungry for spoils after last month's
sweep into the capital.
The breakdown in discipline appears confined to a
small minority of the thousands of newly arrived
troops and is nowhere near the scale of banditry that
ravaged Kabul when the mojahedin ruled from 1992-96.
But fear that the crime will worsen has induced
nostalgia for the ruthlessly effective law and order
policies of the Taliban, if not its brand of Islamic
fundamentalism.
Random interviews with Kabul residents suggest the
looting has deepened support for the proposed
British-led multinational force.
"I would love it if foreign soldiers came. It is not
safe anymore. I am afraid to go to certain areas
because of what the Northern Alliance men are doing,"
said Wahid Aullah, 31, a taxi driver. Colleagues
echoed his observation that the Taliban had tended to
be disciplined and honest until their final days.
The Butkhak and Baysabaz districts had become out of
bounds for taxis in the wake of robberies by soldiers,
who turned violent after ordering drivers to remote
locations, Mr Aullah said. "Yesterday my friend was
beaten very badly and had his car stolen."
A driver known only as Rassoul was less lucky. Last
week shopkeepers in Taimaney district saw four
soldiers getting into his car at 2pm and asking to be
taken to Sorobi, a stretch of desert on Jalalabad road
that is notorious for bandits.
The next day Rassoul's body was found in Sorobi with
four bullet wounds in the chest. His Toyota, worth
�2,000, had disappeared.
"We have not complained to the police. There is no
point because the people who killed him are government
people," said Rassoul's cousin, Siar.
The shopkeepers claimed the soldiers responsible
belonged to the Northern Alliance faction of Abdul
Rasul Sayyaf, a power broker in the interim
government. At least three other abductions and
killings have been reported.
Crimes were also allegedly committed by troops of the
Jamiat-i-Islami faction, the backbone of the Northern
Alliance, which is headed by General Mohammad Fahim,
the defence minister.
A businessman who asked not to be named said he had
been visited at home by three soldiers who demanded he
sign and apply a thumbprint to a legal document
declaring he owed them �800. They set a two-week
deadline for the cash and visit every few days to
remind him.
"I will have to sell my car by the weekend. It's the
only way," he said.
Such crimes pale beside the mass murders, rapes and
kleptomania which disgraced the Northern Alliance's
previous incarnation as the mojahedin, when rival
warlords fought each other and opened the way for the
Taliban takeover. Memory of those days swells support
for the proposed UN peacekeepers.
Morale among the alliance troops is low for a
victorious force. Mostly strangers to Kabul, they are
housed in grim barracks and subsist on meagre rations.
Wages have not been paid in five months and what booty
was grabbed on the way to Kabul has been cashed in and
spent, according to several junior ranking troops.
Commanders said they might be paid a month's salary -
ranging from �15 to �25 - in time for Eid al-Fitr, the
end of Ramadan, which begins this weekend. But for
some that will not be enough.
"I have had to borrow money since coming to Kabul and
it'll take three months' salary to pay it off," said
Joma Khan, 33, wandering through a market with a rifle
over a shoulder. "There's good food and clothes here
but I can't buy anything."
A guard outside the culture ministry eyed passing
barrows of dried fruit and complained of not being
able to afford sweets for Eid despite risking his life
to expel the Taliban. "It's not right," he said.
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