You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more
For @Diplomat_APAC, I write on how the wave of assassinations is silencing critics and cutting off independent voices. As intellectuals were often killed in the past and present warfare, violence has been the dominant means of settling political disputes.https://thediplomat.com/2021/03/assassinations-silence-afghanistans-intellectuals/ …
In a country of 35 million people, the majority of whom are uneducated, five human rights activists and six media workers were murdered in just four months, others have left the country and even more are self-censoring.https://thediplomat.com/2021/03/assassinations-silence-afghanistans-intellectuals/ …
Intellectuals – journalists, professors, activists –offered civic discussions as a means to resolve political disputes in the country. But in each of the disputes, intellectuals were systematically killed and silenced.https://thediplomat.com/2021/03/assassinations-silence-afghanistans-intellectuals/ …
Mir Akbar Khyber, a left-wing activist and intellectual, was assassinated outside of his house in Kabul on April 17, 1978. The mysterious assassination contributed to the communist-led coup that took place shortly thereafter.https://thediplomat.com/2021/03/assassinations-silence-afghanistans-intellectuals/ …
The Afghan communists then systematically waged a campaign against Afghanistan’s intellectuals.The victims were religious figures, rival communists, activists, loyalists of the previous government, and others who opposed the new communist regime.https://thediplomat.com/2021/03/assassinations-silence-afghanistans-intellectuals/ …
In the armed resistance against the communists, those who sought non-violent resistance and undertook independent political activities were threatened and killed in refugee camps in Pakistan.https://thediplomat.com/2021/03/assassinations-silence-afghanistans-intellectuals/ …
Although there have been killings of journalists and civil society activists throughout the last two decades, the pace of assassinations increased dramatically just as peace was appearing on the horizon.https://thediplomat.com/2021/03/assassinations-silence-afghanistans-intellectuals/ …
In essence, the very same peace negotiations that were meant to shift Afghans from settling political disputes with violence to solving such matters via discussion have sparked a terrible rise in violence.https://thediplomat.com/2021/03/assassinations-silence-afghanistans-intellectuals/ …
Great piece. Not only intellectuals are physically harmed to silence. They are virtually threatened and their accounts on social platforms r reported nd blocked.
Thank you for bringing up the online blockage, @realMusazafar.
Well done, rafiq.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.
