Taliban using Iran jammers to stop people watching critical news, says TV boss
Taliban using Iran jammers to stop people watching critical news, says TV boss
Popular channel’s boss Harun Najafizada tells The Independent Taliban purchased an extremely expensive jammer with the intention of using it against AITV
The Taliban have allegedly purchased satellite jammers from Iran to disrupt the last remaining independent television channel reporting on the regime’s brutal crackdown on human rights.
Iran’s assistance helped the Taliban leaders acquire orbital jammers for the satellite stations of the Afghanistan International Television and shut down broadcast for more than a week, AITV’s executive editor Harun Najafizada told The Independent.
The channel is popular among Afghans for their critical coverage of the country’s hardline Islamist regime.
Taliban officials reportedly sent disruptive signals from a ground station within Afghanistan to the satellite, interfering with its broadcast. Hundreds of people in Afghanistan saw a blank screen from 5 September to 13 September before the channel shifted to a different satellite frequency.
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That sucks, but I don't think the West, nor China and very not Russia are willing to waste hundreds of thousands of soldiers lives for everything to be exactly the same again in 20 years. Afghanistan actively rejects civilisation.
Or maybe the two decades-long invasions did extreme damage and brought insane brutality to a poor population?
When America was in control, we set up a strong central bank system to help stabilize the country. Afghans filled the bank with their savings, these funds were outside of the control of the Taliban. The middle class, the opposition to the Taliban, were growing. Then as the US left, we looted every penny. Overnight thousands were bankrupted, leading to economic depression and a huge gain for the Taliban.
Civilization actively rejects Afghanistan.
Or maybe the two decades-long invasions did extreme damage and brought insane brutality to a poor population?
Would you like to elaborate on the situation of Afghanistan before 2001?
The middle class, the opposition to the Taliban, were growing.
Funny, then, that they didn't put up the least bit of a fight when the Taliban came knocking.
Not everything is down to economics.
In 1916 France and the UK create the Sykes-Picot secret agreement with agreement of Russia and Italy to divide the middle east in a way so they would never be able to pose any threat and could be easily manipulated into their spheres of influence, by cutting through areas of ethnic and religious affiliations.
108 years later on Lemmy "Afghanistan actively rejects civilization". It's just unfair to say such a thing when so many civilizations have contributed so much to ensure Afghanistan would never be able to be politically and economically stable.
If anything, everyone should stop sending soldiers to Afghanistan and simply support them humanitarily throughout the long road of recovery ahead of them from what has been done to them for the last 100 years. Ideally, France and the UK should be bearing the brunt of the cost of that humanitarian effort, but in practice, it's difficult to pin the blame on modern day France and UK of their forefathers' sins.
In 1916 France and the UK create the Sykes-Picot secret agreement with agreement of Russia and Italy to divide the middle east in a way so they would never be able to pose any threat and could be easily manipulated into their spheres of influence, by cutting through areas of ethnic and religious affiliations.
Sykes-Picot didn't concern Afghanistan in the least.
108 years later on Lemmy “Afghanistan actively rejects civilization”. It’s just unfair to say such a thing when so many civilizations have contributed so much to ensure Afghanistan would never be able to be politically and economically stable.
In this much, there's agreement - Afghanistan has never had a foundation that could be regarded as politically or economically stable, and the constant attempts to convert it into a politically or economically stable state have been utterly unsuccessful because of the actual conditions of the country.
Is your argument that multiple empires have tried bombing Afghanistan into being a civilized country, but by golly, they want to be savages?
Do you maybe want to, and I'm just brainstorming here, play that out in your head a few more times and rethink your response?
„They hate us for our freedom!“ eh?
> say they reject civilisation > Ignore the resistance movements and organisations actively fighting Taliban rule > Ignore the independent media organisations being crushed by the Taliban for speaking out against the Taliban > Ignore the people fleeing Afghanistan every day because of the Taliban. > Ignores the geopolitical fuckery that gave rise to the modern state of Afghanistan. > Ignores that the Taliban was formed from the Mujahedeen, an organisation funded by the US to fight the Soviets.Yes, clearly the Afghani people are savages who cannot be redeemed. There's no external factors for the clusterfuck that is the Taliban. Anyone who says otherwise is a liberal hippy. /s
Can't they just ban TikTok, RT, Africa Stream, teenagers, etc?
I guess these smaller states don't have the imperial power to crush dissent like USA.
Oh yes, dissent is completely crushed. That's why Fox News is broadcasting every night during the Biden administration and the late night shows were hammering Trump every night when he was in power.