Adam Baczko: "The Taliban have responded to the Afghans' demand for law and state"
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“War by law.
The Taliban courts in Afghanistan ”, Adam Baczko © CNRS
By: Sylvie Noël Follow
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The Taliban's lightning victory came as a surprise last August.
Admittedly, they did not need to carry out much military combat, because the Afghan army formed and trained by the Westerners quickly gave up the weapons.
But in the work he has just published by Editions du CNRS,
La guerre par le droit.
Taliban Courts in Afghanistan
, Adam Baczko describes the justice system that Kabul's new strongmen had put in place in areas they controlled.
A justice which, in the face of the chaos caused by four decades of war, was often appreciated.
RFI asked Adam Baczko if these courts set up by the Taliban were also a key to explaining this rapid conquest of power.
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Adam Baczko
, researcher at the CNRS and at the international research center CERI, visiting researcher at Columbia University and research fellow at the CNRS
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