AFGHANISTAN 2010 – A YEAR IN PICTURES

KyaemonJanuary 9, 201115min981

TALIBAN DYNAMITED THE LARGE BUDDHA STATUES. GOOD RIDDANCE TO THESE RELIGIOUS EXTREMISTS.

HOWEVER, RELIGIONS CANNOT BE COMPLETELY WIPED OUT BY EXTERNAL SOURCES. THEY CAN BE WIPED OUT ONLY BY BAD PRIESTS, INTERNALLY.

Nowadays, we hear a lot about bad Roman Catholic priests. Many people are leaving the RC Church. The high priests have to admit their sins and omissions and not just pretend others are just smearing them.

Similarly, we have some bad Buddhist monks who don’t follow Buddha’s monks’ rules or Vinaya. They and their blind followers just claim that people are smearing them, instead of mending their wrongful ways.


Afghanistan 2010: A Year in Photos – An FP Slide Show | Foreign Policy

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/12/13/afghanistan_2010_a_year_in_photos

The Frame: Afghanistan-nine years of war

http://blogs.sacbee.com/photos/2010/10/afghanistan-nine-years-of-war.html

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The war in Afghanistan enters its 10th year Thursday with key players hedging their bets, uncertain whether the Obama administration is prepared to stay for the long haul, move quickly to exit an increasingly unpopular conflict, or something in between. Fearing that his Western allies may in the end abandon him, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has started to prepare his nation for a withdrawal of international forces by shoring up relations with neighboring Pakistan and reaching out to insurgents interested in reconciliation. Pakistan, America’s nominal ally, says it’s fighting insurgents. But it still tolerates al-Qaida and Afghan Taliban militants hiding out on its soil – out of reach of U.S.-led NATO ground forces. There have been other important junctures, but this ninth anniversary is proving decisive. It’s go-for-broke time in Afghanistan.

Here is a collection of images from the war made by Associated Press photographers. Be advised some pictures depict the graphic nature of war. (44 images)

The Frame: The Marines of India Battery

http://blogs.sacbee.com/photos/2010/10/the-marines-of-india-battery.html

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Three NATO troops were killed Friday in Afghanistan in a surge of attacks that raised the death toll to 17 in three days for international troops in the country. One service member died Friday in an insurgent attack in the east and another was killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, an alliance statement said. It did not give nationalities or exact locations of the attacks. On Thursday, eight NATO troops were killed in a spate of attacks, including four separate roadside bombings. It has been the deadliest year for international forces in the nine-year Afghan conflict. Troop numbers have been ramped up to turn the screws on insurgents and casualties have mounted. The escalating toll — more than 2,020 NATO deaths since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion — has shaken the commitment of many alliance countries, with calls growing to start drawing down forces quickly. Getty Images photographer Scott Olson is with the Marines of India Battery, 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment who are responsible for securing the area near the Kajaki Dam on the Helmand River. (31 images)

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  • ကျေးှဇူးတင်လိုက်တာ ဆရာရေ။ အာဖဂန်နစ္စတန် ရင်ခုန်သူပါ။ Barmiyan က သက်တမ်း ၂၀၀ဝ ကျော်တဲ့ ဗုဒ်ဓရုပ်ပွားတော်ကြီးတွေကို အားပြင်းယမ်းသုံးပြီး ဖောက်ခွဲခဲ့တာ တကယ်တော့ ဘာသာရေးရှုထောင့်ထက် ကိုယ့်တိုင်းပြည်ကိုယ့် လူမျိုးရဲ့အမွေအနှစ်ကို ဖျက်ဆီးခဲ့တာပါ။ လွန်ခဲ့တဲ့ နှစ်ပေါင်း ၂၀၀ဝ ကျော်တုန်းက Barmiyan ဟာ ဗုဒ်ဓသာသနာ့နယ်မြေ။ ဘုန်းတော်ကြီး အပါး ၅၀၀ဝကျော် သီတင်းသုံးခဲ့တဲ့ နယ်မြေ၊ ဂူနံရံပေါ်က နံရံဆေးရေးပန်းချီတွေဟာ ဘုန်းတော်ကြီးတွေရဲ့လက်ရာ။ သမိုင်းတန်ဖိုးမဖြတ်နိုင်တဲ့ တိုင်းပြည့်အမွေပါ။ ဒါကို တာလီဘန်တွေ ဘာသာရေးတစ်ဖက်စွန်းရောက်ပြီး ဒီလောက်ထုကြီးထည်ကြီး လက်ရာမွန်ကိုဖျက်ဆီးခဲ့တာ ဘယ်လောက်အသိဉာဏ် ကင်းမဲ့သလဲ။ လူမှမဟုတ်ဘဲ။ ဒီလိုလူတွေနဲ့ သမ္မတ ကာဇိုင်းက ညှိယူဖို့ကြိုးစားနေတယ်တဲ့လား။ အာဖဂန်နစ္စတန်ကနေ အမေရိကန်တပ်တွေ ရုပ်သိမ်းရင် ဘာဖြစ်ကုန်မယ်ထင်သလဲ။ အာဖဂန်လူမျိုး တွေကို ချစ်ခင်မိတာ၊ သနားမိတာ၊ ကမာ္ဘကျော်စာရေးဆရာ Khalad Hosseini ရဲ့ ဝတ္ထု ၂ အုပ်ကို ဖတ်မိလို့ပါ။ အာဖဂန်နစ္စတန် ဆိုတဲ့ စာလုံးလေးတွေကို စာရွက်ပိုင်းလေးပေါ်မှာ မြင်မိရင်တောင် ရင်တွေခုန်လာ တတ်အောင် စာရေးဆရာဟာ မှော်အတတ်နဲ့ ကျွန်တော့်ကို ပြုစားထားခဲ့ပါ တယ်။

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