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Afghanistan: Slicing Up a Traditional Buffer State: Regional Repercussions of the Mujahideen Takeover in Kabul |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / AFGHAN AFTERMATH |
| Author: Khalid Duran |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1992 |
| Size: 5,781 Words, 35,756 Characters |
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After the Soviet invasion in 1979, Afghanistan witnessed a war of liberation that led not only to the withdrawal of the Red Army but to the collapse of the Soviet empire as a whole. Nevertheless, the disappearance of the Soviet-installed regime, with the Soviet withdrawal in 1988, did not bring peace to this Muslim nation; on the contrary, it ushered in a process of ravaging dissolution and complex war that may well lead to the disappearance of the state of Afghanistan, analogous to the breaking asunder of Yugoslavia in the middle of a multidimensional civil war.
In April 1978, a successful coup by pro-Soviet army offices unleashed a multitude of centrifugal forces. Accompanied by much bloodshed and a total disruption of traditional values, this tragic event destroyed the delicate ba...
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...to themselves, Afghans have usually found ways to get along with one another, despite their ethnic and religious differences.
The problem is the time factor. How long will it take for this conclusion to dawn upon the opponents? At the moment, it looks like it is too late for any such compromise, like Afghanistan is in for an all-out war, as a testing ground for competing regional powers.
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