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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world … 00658.html

Two-thirds of the women in Lashkar Gah's medieval-looking jail have been convicted of illegal sexual relations, but most are simply rape victims – mirroring the situation nationwide. The system does not distinguish between those who have been attacked and those who have chosen to run off with a man.

Sitting among the plastic flowers around his desk, where an optimistic United Nations scales of justice poster competed for space with images of Afghanistan's President, Hamid Karzai, Colonel Ghulam Ali, a high-ranking regional security officer, explained sternly that he supported the authorities' right to convict victims of rape. "In Afghanistan whether it is forced or not forced it is a crime because the Islamic rules say that it is," he claimed. "I think it is good. There are many diseases that can be created in today's world, such as HIV, through illegal sexual relations."

Nice. Don't like a woman? Don't kill her, just rape her. You get to go home and toss back a cold bottle of water, and she goes to jail for 10-20. Nice little hell hole they have there. I guess this is somewhat better than the Taliban, who just shot rape victims in the head every month at the nearest UN-funded soccer field.