Forgotten Wars, Open Wounds -- @NorthAndrew and @saadmohseni abt the conflicts that we do not pay attention to. #Georgia slipping from minds; Iraq protests in 2019; Afghanistan now.
Third session in @TbilisiZeg in #Tbilisi.
Third session in @TbilisiZeg in #Tbilisi.
.@saadmohseni In Afghanistan, "we paid a very heavy price for the victory over Soviets", the question I ask about #Ukraine -- how will this end? "The American have been very fickle."
"It's easy to cheer from the sidelines, but people get killed. We have been seeing that play out in our own lives in 44 years of war."
(In my view: fair point, but UKR is & wants to be in Europe, and that does matter.) #zeg22
(In my view: fair point, but UKR is & wants to be in Europe, and that does matter.) #zeg22
what are the challenges in keeping going TV, in Taliban context, asks @NorthAndrew
"Some describe it is like a scene in which the aliens take over." @saadmohseni We cannot show soap operas, women presenters covered, etc. but we are still there, still covering, still stories.
"Some describe it is like a scene in which the aliens take over." @saadmohseni We cannot show soap operas, women presenters covered, etc. but we are still there, still covering, still stories.
can one continue? "I am conflicted," says @saadmohseni bigger picture we are doing the right thing, someone needs to cover stories, but it does involve compromises in what one can do in #Afghanistan today.
.@NorthAndrew what are key lessons, for example also on war crimes? Outrage in Afgh, when war crimes in UKR raised -- as many feel that US is not subjecting itself to the standards applied there.
Q -- Tamara Chergoleishvili -- "listening to this it feels like we live in the post-truth area, equating RU and US. Such equations enable the bad guys."
-- applause in the room. (Few in the room are taken here by the point made on the stage.)
A: "it's never black and white, good guys can do bad things"
A: "it's never black and white, good guys can do bad things"
.@saadmohseni "what if AFG was not a failure?" Life expectancy up, ppl more educated, women more educated, they challenge authorities, women protesting in AFG before they did in Iran, and women protesting on behalf of the entire country.
Taliban less corrupt; they collect taxes; security is up, civil war has ended; seem to be more engaged with the public.
Previous gov more concerned going to London, Brussels, rentier state.
Not to say that Taliban are not doing bad things, says @saadmohseni but pop resisting.
Previous gov more concerned going to London, Brussels, rentier state.
Not to say that Taliban are not doing bad things, says @saadmohseni but pop resisting.
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