Afghan opium poppy cultivation plunges by 95 percent under Taliban: UN
Afghan opium poppy cultivation plunges by 95 percent under Taliban: UN
www.aljazeera.com Afghan opium poppy cultivation plunges by 95 percent under Taliban: UN
The restriction on poppy cultivation has decimated a key trade for hundreds of thousands of farmers and labourers.
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They were perfectly fine with it over the past couple decades when it was helping keep them funded.
What changed
China came with some money.
Similar to how they did the same when we paid them to back in the late 90s.
The US pulled out
They're the government now and are funded through taxes, so they can afford to be truer to their own beliefs.
The war ended. They always said it was a temporary measure to raise funds for their insurgency, and I guess they meant it.
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