Hundreds March In Kandahar To Protest Against Taliban Evictions
NDTV
Residents of Zara Ferqa, a suburb made up of government housing and ramshackle huts, said they had been ordered to leave by the Taliban, but had nowhere else to go.
Hundreds of protesters from a neighbourhood populated by former Afghan army servicemen marched in Kandahar Tuesday against plans by the Taliban to evict them from their homes.
Residents of Zara Ferqa, a suburb made up of government housing and ramshackle huts, said they had been ordered to leave by the Taliban, but had nowhere else to go.
One resident said they were told to vacate their homes and give them to Taliban fighters.
Locals say more than 10,000 people live in the neighbourhood -- many of them widows or wives of servicemen killed or wounded in action against the Taliban in the past 20 years.
