August 24, 2009
Dying to Vote in Afghanistan
A shameful statistic was released yesterday. We in this country might be obsessed with an idealistic view of democracy - but Afghanistanis evidently don’t share our enthusiasm.
Apparenly, only 150 Afghan voters dared to go to the polls in the area of Helmand province where four British soldiers sacrificed their lives to help [...]
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