James Fergusson: Taliban | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780552162838 | Taliban | James Fergusson | Taschenbuch | 415 S. | Englisch | 2011

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Southern Afghanistan in the early 1990s was in even greater chaos than it is now. The Russians who had occupied the country throughout the 1980s were long gone. The disparate ethnic and religious leaders who had united to eject the invaders - the famous mujaheddin - were at each others' throats. For the rural poor of Kandahar province life was almost impossible.

On 12 October 1994 a small group of religious students decided to take matters into their own hands. Led by an illiterate village mullah with one eye some 200 of them surrounded and took Spin Boldak a trucking stop on the border with Pakistan. From this short and unremarkable border skirmish a legend was born. The students' numbers swelled as news of their triumph spread. The Taliban as they now called themselves - taliban is the plural of talib literally 'one who seeks knowledge' - had a simple mission statement: the disarmament of the population and the establishment of a theocracy based on Sharia law. They fought with a religious zeal that the warring mujaheddin could not match.

By February 1995 this people's revolt had become a national movement; 18 months later Kabul fell and the country was effectively theirs. James Fergusson's fascinating account of this extraordinary story is be required reading for anyone who wishes to understand the situation in Afghanistan now and for the future...

Über den Autor

James Fergusson is a freelance journalist and foreign correspondent who has written for many publications including the Independent, The Times, the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail and The Economist. From 1997 he reported from Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan, covering that city's fall to the Taliban. In 1998 he became the first western journalist in more than two years to interview the fugitive warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. His first book, Kandahar Cockney, told the story of Mir, his Pashtun fixer-interpreter whom he befriended and helped gain political asylum in London. From 1999 to 2001 he worked in Sarajevo as a press spokesman for OHR, the organisation charged with implementing the Dayton, Ohio peace accord that ended Bosnia's savage civil war in 1995. He lives in Edinburgh and is married with three children.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2011
Fachbereich:	Zeitgeschichte & Politik
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Jahrhundert:	ab 1949
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	415 S.
ISBN-13:	9780552162838
ISBN-10:	0552162833
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Fergusson, James
Hersteller:	Corgi
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße:	198 x 127 x 25 mm
Von/Mit:	James Fergusson
Erscheinungsdatum:	14.04.2011
Gewicht:	0,506 kg

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