Destruction of Poppy Fields and Shooting at Farmers in Badakhshan

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Farmers in the Khash district of Badakhshan began the new year with fear and anxiety on Saturday morning (June 19). Taliban counter-narcotics forces, who are not local people and are of Pashtun descent, arrived at the people’s farms with rangers and, without any prior warning to the farmers, began an operation to destroy the poppy fields; the fields that are the only source of income for hundreds of families in the district. Local sources told t…