Once again it is the guns fault and not the user of the gun that is the problem!
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KABUL, Afghanistan (news - web sites) (AP) - Saying the ``rule of the gun'' must end, the U.N. human rights representative for Afghanistan insisted Monday that Afghans will [b]feel truly free[/b] only after weapons are restricted, jobs created and daily routines re-established.
But Kamal Hossain said that can happen only if two pivotal parties - Afghanistan's interim government and the international community that backs it - keep their word to a population already hardened by years of broken promises.
``These are the priorities of the people - to be secure in their lives and to be able to be productive again, to have employment, to have the wherewithal to sustain themselves and their families,'' said Hossain, the U.N. special representative for human rights in Afghanistan.
``In that sense, it's a time of hope and expectation,'' he told a news conference after days of speaking to government officials, U.N. Afghanistan Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi and ordinary citizens.
Three weeks into Afghanistan's post-Taliban interim government, Hossain drew a portrait of a people who hunger not only for stability and safety, but for the chance to reconstruct their lives as they see fit.
That, he suggested, is among the most basic definitions of human rights - along with food, shelter and the freedom from being shot or blown up by a land mine.
---[b]I did not know that being shot or blown up was able to hold someone captive. I would have written "and to live without fear of..."[/b]
His field visit to Afghanistan comes as thousands of refugees - both from bordering Pakistan and Iran and from within Afghanistan are on the move, aided by both their new government and the United Nationsin returning to their home villages.