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Humanities

Homeroom:

Crime & How to Make an Inference with a Question

Do Now: Read the following using your strategies and complete the chart. Please read silently when complete.

Crime in Afghanistan

Crime in Afghanistan is present in many forms, and includes the following: corruption, murder or assassinations, kidnapping, drug trafficking, money laundering, black marketeering, and other ordinary crimes.

Unemployment is the major factors behind crime. People lack access to basic necessities which makes them desperate.

Since the downfall of the Taliban, crime rate has significantly increased in the capital city Kabul. Armed robberies are regularly reported in the western districts of Kabul. Between March 2002 and January 2003, 48 cases of homicide (murder), 80 cases of theft and 12 cases of kidnappings were reported near Kabul.

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Crime rate has significantly increased in the capital city Kabul.
Between March 2002 and January 2003, 48 cases of homicide (murder), 80 cases of theft and 12 cases of kidnappings were reported near Kabul.
People lack access to basic necessities.
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Based on the above information, I can infer that...
Objective: SWBAT answer a question to form an inference in order to describe prison-life in Afghanistan.
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Edited from In Some Afghan-Run Prisons, UN Report

AP | By PATRICK QUINN

Posted: 10/10/2011 7:29 am EDT Updated: 12/10/2011 5:12 am EST

KABUL, Afghanistan — Beatings, electric shocks and other forms of torture were ordered to alleged Taliban fighters in some Afghan-run detention centers, the U.N. said Monday, even as the U.S. and others have spent billions of dollars training the police and security services.

Although Afghan security officials have been suspected of torturing prisoners to gather information and confessions, the report for the first time confirms the assumption and describes much of the abuse.

It found that prisoners in 47 prisons run by the Afghan National Police suffered questioning techniques that included torture.

The U.S. provides the overwhelming majority of the cash that funds the Afghanistan prisons. If the United States confirms that the results of the report are true, Afghanistan risks losing funding because they have “human rights violations."

However, if "those officials responsible for torture” are fired – the U.S. will not remove funding.

Turn & Talk: What reason BEST explains why the U.S. would provide Afghanistan with money to fund their prisons?
How would you describe Afghani prisons?
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Guided Practice: edited from Kabul's prison of death

By: Bilal Sarwary

Afghanistan's Pul-e-Charkhi prison is notorious for the murder and torture of thousands of people during the 1970s. Many were buried alive. Thousands disappeared, their families unsure if they were alive or dead.

Afghans have bitter memories of the jail under every government that has ruled the country.

Nowadays the rundown jails near Kabul are used to house common criminals and al-Qaeda and Taleban suspects alike.

Among those inside Afghanistan's biggest prison are Timur Shah, a gang leader on death row for murder who kidnapped an Italian aid worker in 2005, and Jack Idema, a U.S. ex-special forces soldier jailed for torturing Afghans.

Haji Nawroaz Khan, a former Mujahideen fighter from eastern Nangarhar province, was jailed in Pul-e-Charkhi by the Afghan officials.

“ I once prayed to God to please take my life here in the jail or help me get out ” Former inmate Haji Nawroaz Khan stated. "I remember that the Communists would come and they would electrocute us. They put hot water on us and beat us with cables," he says. "I want this prison to be closed and kept as a museum to remember the murders.”

Other prisoners from northern Afghanistan didn't want to give their name during the interview. "I was jailed there for two years under President Hafizullah Amin," one man told the British news anonymously. "Every night they would take 60 people outside the prison, make them stand in line, then shoot them all and put them into a pit. Bulldozers would came and put sand and clay in it.” "I am really lucky because we were the very few who survived."

"The real criminals are the police here who are to protect us," he told the BBC last year. "They even take the meat out of the soup and eat it themselves. They take the fruit sometimes.” "Nothing here is good - even Guantanamo Bay is better than Pul-e-Charkhi."

Thousands of prisoners can be held in the many blocks of the jail, built in a desolate landscape far from houses or other humans. Inmates are surrounded by four high walls made of stone and cement, with a watch tower at each corner. Jumma Khan, a former inmate who survived, told the BBC he remembers little sun and damp, dark cells. "They didn't need to kill you in Demazang - they would put you there and you would die."

What happened in Pul-e-Charkhi during the 1970s?
What happened to inmate Haji Nawroaz Khan when he was in jail?
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Independent Practice

In 2005, The New York Times obtained a 2,000-page United States Army report about the killings of two weaponless civilian Afghan prisoners by U.S. military members. The murder occurred in 2002 in Bagram, Afghanistan. The prisoners, Habibullah and Dilawar, were chained to the ceiling and beaten, which caused their deaths.Military doctors ruled that both the prisoners' deaths were murders. Autopsies revealed severe trauma to both prisoners' legs, describing the trauma as comparable to being run over by a bus. Seven soldiers were charged with the crime.

After this event, the United States government passed a rule called the McCain amendment. The amendment prohibited inhumane treatment of prisoners. The Amendment was introduced by Senator John McCain. On October 5, 2005, the United States Senate voted 90-9 to support the amendment.

Why did Habibullah and Dilawar die?
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Exit Ticket

Qala-i-Jangi (Dari/Pashto: قلعهِ جنگی) is a 19th-century fortress located near Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan. It is known for being the site of a bloody 2001 Taliban uprising named the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi, in which at least 470 people were killed including CIA agent Johnny "Mike" Spann. It served as Northern Alliance General Abdul Rashid Dostum's military fort during the opening stages of the War in Afghanistan (2001–present).

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Homeroom:

Afghani Prisons

Edited from Afghan Panel Claims to Find Secret Prisons

By AZAM AHMED and TAIMOOR SHAHAPRIL 26, 2014

KABUL, Afghanistan — A commission appointed by President Hamid Karzai to investigate prisons run by American and British forces in southern Afghanistan claimed Saturday to have uncovered secret prisons.

“We have conducted a thorough investigation and search of Kandahar Airfield and Camp Bastion and found several illegal and unlawful prisons being run and operated by foreign military forces,” said Abdul Shakur Dadras, the panel’s chairman.

Mr. Dadras offered no evidence to support his claim, though he promised to release more details after presenting his report to Mr. Karzai.

Lt. Col. J. Todd Breasseale, a spokesman for the Defense Department, wrote in an email, “Every facility that we use for detention is well known not only by the government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, but also by the I.C.R.C.,” a reference to the International Committee of the Red Cross.

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Homeroom:

The Breadwinner Chapter 3 & How to Inference with a Question

Do Now: Write a 10-15 word summary of The Breadwinner Chapter 2. Please read silently when complete.

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Objective: 2) SWBAT make an inference about Kabul and support their inference with 3 pieces of textual evidence
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Exit Slip:What inference can you make about Kabul? What evidence do you have to support your claim? Support your claim with at least 3 pieces of textual evidence.

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1)[S1]Track

2)Address the prompt

3) Write down questions

[S2]How would you describe Kabul.

[S3]Round robin