When Rabbits are in Charge of Carrots: Land Grabbing, Transitional Justice and Economic-State Crime in Afghanistan

Notes

1. All the quotes from interviews and local sources have been translated from Dari (Persian) into English by the first author.

2. Apart from the billions of international aid that came to Afghanistan following the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001 (Poole 2011), in its latest pledge the donor community in Brussels promised US$15.2 billion to the Afghan government (BBC News, 5 October 2016).

3. Other scholars stretch this argument even further and state that TJ should be considered as part of the ongoing conflict, that is, in the form of judicial intervention (Engstrom 2013). We adopt this line of argumentation for the case of Afghanistan.

4. https://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/afghan2/Afghan0701-01.htm#P228_56166.

5. Jirib (also written as jerib) is the unit of land measurement in Afghanistan, which is standardized at 2,000 square metres or 1.5 hectares. Source: http://www.unc.edu/∼rowlett/units/dictJ.html.

6. Daily 8 AM is considered one of the leading newspapers of Afghanistan with a reputation to conduct high-quality investigative journalism, including a number of reports on land grabbing and mining mafia.

7. http://anti-corruption.gov.af/en/page/1733.