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7月21日付ガーディアン紙によれば、NATO軍司令官と閣僚の見解はまったく正反対。軍には資材は不足しているし、取り組みも事態の推移に追いつかない。アフガニスタンはほぼ無政府状態にあるという。
アフガニスタンにおける英国の最上級指揮官は今日こう語った。外国機関は反目し合うし、倫理感に欠けた民間警備会社は地方の腐敗から生じる問題を悪化させる。国内状況は「ほぼ無政府状態にある」。
厳しい警告はアフガニスタンのNATO国際治安部隊の長、デイヴィッド・リチャーズ中将から出た。中将は、アフガニスタン国民の期待に沿おうとしても、そこの西側部隊には資材は不足しているし、「取り組みも事態の推移に間に合わない」と警告した。
NATO諸国の想定では、2002年にタリバンが敗北したのち、アフガニスタンの状況は落ち着くだろうというものだった、とリチャーズ将軍は語った。「ところが実際はそうではなかったのだ」
種族間の対立や無政府的軍閥同士の対立で、事態は安定しない。地方当局が腐敗していたり、NATOの再建チームが誤った指示を出したりで混乱は深まる一方。民間警備会社が安易に銃器を放出する。NATO軍に資材、特に飛行機が不足している。医療避難システムも救命資材も欠けている。何やかやが無政府状態を進行させているのだ。
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英文元記事は次のとおり
Afghanistan close to anarchy, warns general
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,,1826303,00.html
· Nato commmander's views in stark contrast to ministers'
· Forces short of equipment and 'running out of time'
Richard Norton-Taylor
Friday July 21, 2006
The Guardian
The most senior British military commander in Afghanistan today described the situation in the country as "close to anarchy" with feuding foreign agencies and unethical private security companies compounding problems caused by local corruption.
The stark warning came from Lieutenant General David Richards, head of Nato's international security force in Afghanistan, who warned that western forces there were short of equipment and were "running out of time" if they were going to meet the expectations of the Afghan people.
The assumption within Nato countries had been that the environment in Afghanistan after the defeat of the Taliban in 2002 would be benign, Gen Richards said. "That is clearly not the case," he said today. He referred to disputes between tribes crossing the border with Pakistan, and divisions between religious and secular factions cynically manipulated by "anarcho-warlords".
Corrupt local officials were fuelling the problem and Nato's provincial reconstruction teams in Afghanistan were sending out conflicting signals, Gen Richards told a conference at the Royal United Services Institute in London. "The situation is close to anarchy," he said, referring in particular to what he called "the lack of unity between different agencies".
He described "poorly regulated private security companies" as unethical and "all too ready to discharge firearms". Nato forces in Afghanistan were short of equipment, notably aircraft, but also of medical evacuation systems and life-saving equipment.
Officials said later that France and Turkey had sent troops to Kabul but without any helicopters to support them.
Gen Richards will also take command of the 4,500-strong British brigade in Helmand province at the heart of the hostile, poppy-growing south of the country when it comes under Nato's overall authority. He said today that Nato "could not afford not to succeed" in its attempt to bring long-term stability to Afghanistan and build up the country's national army and security forces. He described the mission as a watershed for Nato, taking on "land combat operations for the first time in its history".
The picture Gen Richards painted today contrasted markedly with optimistic comments by ministers when they agreed earlier this month to send reinforcements to southern Afghanistan at the request of British commanders there. Many of those will be engineers with the task of appealing to Afghan "hearts and minds" by repairing the infrastructure, including irrigation systems.
Gen Richards said today that was a priority. How to eradicate opium poppies - an issue repeatedly highlighted by ministers - was a problem that could only be tackled later.
General Sir Mike Jackson, the head of the British army, said recently: "To physically eradicate [opium poppies] before all the conditions are right seems to me to be counter-productive." The government admits that Helmand province is about to produce a bumper poppy crop and is now probably the biggest single source of heroin in the world. Ministers are concerned about criticism the government will face if planting over the next few months for next year's crop - in an area patrolled by British troops - is not significantly reduced.
Kim Howells, the Foreign Office minister responsible for Afghanistan, told the Guardian that the immediate target had to be the biggest poppy cultivators and dealers who control the £1bn-plus Afghan drug trade.
The strategy should be: "Go for the fat cats, very wealthy farmers, the movers and shakers of the drug trade" and their laboratories, he said. Asked about the concern of British military commanders that by depriving farmers - and warlords - of a lucrative crop, poppy eradication would feed the insurgency, Mr Howells admitted: "It's a big problem for us."
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