A | Kenny 编译 3月15日，绿党宣布停职其排名议员Darleen Tana，因为她丈夫名下的企业被指控移民剥削。 The August 15, 2021 fall of Kabul shocked the world, signaling the collapse of the West’s 20-year-long, multi-trillion-dollar nation-building experiment in Afghanistan in a single day.,Less than two weeks before the cataclysm, US and Afghan officials issued statement after statement expressing confidence in the Afghan military’s ability to fight on without American support on the ground.,“[The Afghan Army has] got greater numbers, they’ve got an air force, and, oh by the way, their air force is also flying…This is not an incompetent air force – they know how to fight from the air and they are. They have modern weaponry. They have military organizational ability as well as 20 years of training in the field by – not just the United States but our NATO and Allied partners. So they have a lot of advantages. It’s really just now about using those advantages,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters in Washington on August 11, less than 100 hours before Kabul’s collapse.,In the chaotic few days that followed, Afghan Air Force personnel wound up flying nearly 50 helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft out of the country to neighboring Uzbekistan.,What happened? How did the US and NATO’s orderly withdrawal – which began in May 2021 amid fears that the Taliban would attack Western forces if they didn’t stick to the terms of the 2020 Trump-Taliban Doha peace deal, turn into such a humiliating and disorganized rout?,Paper Tiger vs Shoeless Army,On paper, the Afghan government and army seemed prepared for a years-long slog, similar to the one put up by the Soviet-backed Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, which managed to hold out against the Mujahedeen independently between 1989 and early 1992, even as the jihadists received billions in arms and cash from the CIA, Saudi and Egyptian intelligence, Pakistan and China. By comparison, the NATO-backed Afghan Army had serious problems with foreign support for the Taliban, with the insurgent group’s only major foreign backer consisting of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence.,The Afghan military boasted a total size of some 300,000 personnel – the 16th largest army in the world, along with an impressive array of $85 billion in US-gifted weaponry, including tens of millions of guns, grenades and rocket launchers, 8,500 Humvees, hundreds of armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles, tanks, mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles, and thousands of heavy and light trucks.,The Air Force’s inventory included more than two hundred Russian and US-made attack and utility helicopters, dozens of transport planes, and close to 30 Cessna 208 and A-29 Super Tucano ground attack and COIN jets.,US 'Lost Track' of Afghan War Aims, Says Retired Marine General12 August, 17:00 GMT,Facing off against them were the Taliban: a rag-tag group of militants whose core fighting force was estimated to consist of about 60,000 fighters, some of them shoeless, no air force, and limited mobility due to their adversary’s total air superiority and control of fuel.,Behind the scenes, a sprinkling of media reports and testimonies from Afghan soldiers and officials told a sobering story previewing the coming disaster, discussing the widespread disillusionment, demoralization and corruption centered around military and police structures based more on patronage, personal power and enrichment than competence and aptitude.,“There is no motivation for the army to fight for the corrupt government and corrupt politicians here,” Ahmad Wali Massoud, Afghanistan’s former envoy to the UK, told the Wall Street Journal on August 10, a few days before Kabul’s collapse.,“They are not fighting for [then-Afghan President Ashraf] Ghani. They haven’t even been fed properly. Why should they fight? For what? They are better off with the Taliban, which is why they are switching sides like that,” Massoud explained.,US Military Vehicles Falling Into Taliban Hands at Alarming Rate, Report Finds3 July 2021, 15:14 GMT,Ghani himself would end up fleeing the country as Kabul fell, with his entourage reportedly carrying so much money in suitcases from the state coffers that he had to leave some of it behind. Ghani has categorically dismissed these reports and denied allegations besmirching his good name.,John Sopko, the US inspector general for Afghanistan, warned Congress in March 2021 about the state of the Afghan’s military’s demoralization, admitting that “endemic corruption” was a threat, and that it was “fueling” the insurgency and giving the Taliban the means to gain public support.,Another problem, according to a May 2021 report by the Associated Press, was lack of professionalism. Attiqullah Amarkhiel, a former Afghan Army major general, told the news agency that while the Moscow-allied Afghan Army of 1989 consisted of about 150,000 high school educated troops. By contrast, he said, the NATO-trained crack troops of the Western-backed Afghan government had just six-to-eight weeks of basic training, with most recruits uneducated and/or allied to warlords.,“Then we had quality. Today we have quantity,” Amarkhiel said.,Blitzkrieg,This demoralization and corruption, combined with what The Intelligencer characterized as an institutionally built-in deep overdependence on US coalition support, culminated in the events of early-mid-August 2021.,By mid-July of that year, the Taliban was able to take advantage of coalition forces’ withdrawal by establishing control over large swathes of the Afghan countryside. However, no major cities and none of the country’s 34 provincial capitals were under the group’s control at the time. Throughout its two-decade insurgency campaign, the Taliban only launched one major strategic offensive against a government-controlled city – striking Kandahar in May 2011 before retreating back into the countryside.,Fast forward a decade, and the militant group would finally cast off their inhibitions about offensives cities.,On August 6, the militants captured Zaranj, capital of the southern province of Nimruz near the border with Iran, in a lightning attack, with government forces putting up light resistance and local bureaucrats fleeing the city.,A day later, the militants captured Sheberghan, capital of Jawzjan province, after heavy fighting. On August 8, Sar-e-Pul, Kunduz and Taluqan, three provincial capitals in the north of the country, fell, followed by Aybak in the northern Samangan province on August 9.,August 10 witnessed the collapse of Farah in the west and Pul-e-Khumri in Afghanistan’s center. A day later, Faizabad, capital of the northeastern province of Badakhshan also fell.,Animation showing Taliban's inexorable march towards Kabul. “The problem with the army was not lack of training or weapons. The most important thing in war is politics”Read @AmyKazmin @KatrinaManson and @b_parkyn's story on why the Afghan army foldedhttps://t.co/bjjJdPp15J pic.twitter.com/Ll6JrHQWLH— Steven Bernard (@sdbernard) August 15, 2021,August 12-13 would become the darkest days for the Afghan army and government up to that point, with the cities of Ghazni, Herat, Kandahar, Lashkar Gah, Qala-e-Naw, Feruz Koh, Pul-e-Alam, Terenkot and Qalat falling to the Taliban in the space of 48 hours. On August 14, the strategic northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif fell.,Finally, on August 15, 2021, Kabul and the eastern city of Jalalabad collapsed – falling, awkwardly, while tens of thousands of coalition troops, contractors, diplomats, Afghan puppet administration assistance and Western intelligence agents were still in the country.,© AP Photo / Rahmat GulA U.S. Chinook helicopter flies over the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. Taliban fighters entered the outskirts of the Afghan capital on Sunday, further tightening their grip on the country as panicked workers fled government offices and helicopters landed at the U.S. Embassy.A U.S. Chinook helicopter flies over the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. Taliban fighters entered the outskirts of the Afghan capital on Sunday, further tightening their grip on the country as panicked workers fled government offices and helicopters landed at the U.S. Embassy.© AP Photo / Rahmat Gul,In a post-op analysis of the events, General Yasin Zia, the former chief of staff of the Afghan army, estimated that some 4,000 security forces troops were killed, and 1,000 more gone missing, in the deadly weeks between July 1 and August 15, 2021 – with that figure representing about one half of the average of 8,000 Afghan security personnel killed each year over the previous five years.,Zia estimated that in total, some 92,000 members of the Afghan security forces died in the line of duty since 2001. Up to 100,000 Afghan civilians, tens of thousands of Taliban fighters, over 3,500 US and coalition troops, and 4,000+ Western mercenaries also perished.,* An organization under UN sanctions for terrorist activities.。 算上之前的Elizabeth Kerekere因霸凌指控而退党，Golriz Ghahraman因盗窃指控而辞职，Tana已经是最近一年第三位出事的绿党议员。 Advertise with us 据英文《先驱报》报道，一名工人称电动自行车企业E Cycles NZ拖欠他2.5万纽币报酬和假期工资。他还声称在获得工签之前一直被支付现金，而且他的第一天试工是Tana亲自监督的。 他说他已经向新西兰雇佣关系局（ERA）投诉。据悉还有一名工人也提出了投诉。
B | 绿党联合党魁Marama Davidson和Chlöe Swarbrick向媒体进行通报，证实Tana在2月1日向绿党通报了雇佣关系局的投诉。 “2月9日，绿党被告知雇佣关系局的第二起投诉……这些投诉包含了对Tana女士的指控。Tana女士从2019年起不再担任E Cycles NZ公司的股东或董事。” 但绿党承认这些指控“性质非常严重”，而且和Tana主管的小企业投资事务存在利益冲突。 两位党魁表示，直到昨天她们才得知“Tana女士可能在2月1日前就对这些指控知情”。因此，绿党已暂停Tana的所有议员和党内职务，并任命一位独立律师来处理此事。 她们表示已进入调解程序，而“调解保密是必须的，这样每个人才能开诚布公的讲话，实现大家都满意的结果”。
C | “在等待调解和独立调查进行期间，我们无法对具体指控发表任何评论。
D | ” Davidson在接受采访时强调绿党一直致力于保护移民劳工，并且要求候选人汇报任何可能拖累绿党名誉的事件。 “对我们党来说，这是一段艰难时期，我想每个人都清楚这一点，”戴维森说。
E | “我们所能做的就是解决问题，尽最大努力为所有相关人员——所有受指控影响的人，包括议员本人——维护程序的正义。” 相关阅读： 前绿党议员对所有入店行窃指控认罪 又发现一起！前绿党议员被指控第四项入店行窃罪！ 前绿党议员涉嫌偷走近10000纽币商品，最高可判7年监禁 警方对前绿党议员提起第三项入店行窃指控，与去年10月的窃案有关 前绿党议员被警方指控两项入店行窃罪，下月出庭 前绿党议员涉嫌行窃案：警方上门调查 涉嫌多次行窃的绿党议员从国会辞职：“我辜负了很多人，非常抱歉！” 绿党议员涉嫌第三起偷窃事件！这次发生在惠灵顿 涉嫌偷窃的绿党议员，今天回新西兰了，结果…… 毁三观！新西兰知名国会议员第二起偷窃事件曝光！党魁发布声明！ 第二起商店行窃事件被披露，绿党议员四面楚歌 知名绿党议员被指控行窃后保持沉默，政治评论员称很难重建声誉 【先驱自媒】震惊！新西兰国会议员被指控在奥克兰精品店行窃！ 从伊朗难民到新西兰国会议员，年仅35的她经历了怎样开挂的人生？ 她是新西兰首位难民国会议员 却不幸罹患多发性硬化 注：本文为编译/原创，欢迎转发分享；但严禁复制等未经授权的非法使用。违反上述声明者，本网将追究其相关法律责任。使用授权请联系[email protected]。 chineseherald.co.nz All Rights Reserved 版权所有 (责编：鸮鹦鹉) 相关内容 中国外交部长王毅将于下周访问新西兰 奥克兰海湾神秘尸袋：受害者疑为中国女性，警方展开凶杀案调查 前绿党议员入店行窃细节披露：她偷了什么？怎么偷的？ 夜间奥克兰的快餐店和民宅遭砸抢，居民被袭击，一人受伤 不干了！新西兰警察威胁要怠工！不打击黑帮、不开罚单！只因…… 前绿党议员对所有入店行窃指控认罪 奥克兰海湾发现神秘尸袋！打开冒出一只人手！ 极地冷空气涌入，今年迄今最冷的周末来了！。
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