Mohammad Nayim wants the warlords who ruined his life to be prosecuted no matter where they are now.
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Previous peace deals that integrated war criminals into Congo's army, including Ntaganda, reignited conflict soon thereafter as the warlords again behaved lawlessly.
Muhammad Khatami, Iran's president, says he wants to carry on helping with crop substitution, but the warlords of southern Afghanistan are not interested.
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On the whole, they think America would be wise to abandon the warlords and spend cash building up the Somali economy wherever there is a bit of order.
Mr Karzai has another pressing reason to confront the warlords.
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Then there are the warlords, wrestling for regional control.
Controlling the warlords proved more difficult than anyone had expected, and ten months after American troops first landed, a Blackhawk helicopter was shot down during a mission to capture one of those warlords.
If the moderate Islamists find more in common with the Shabab than with the warlords and what is left of the transitional government, the fighting could be as bad as at any time since Somalia imploded in 1992.
Nashir, the Khanabad governor, who is the scion of a prominent family, said that the rise of the warlords was just the latest in a series of ominous developments in a country where government officials exercise virtually no independent authority.
But unless there is some counterweight to the warlords and drug lords who have bullied ordinary Afghans for the past decade, there is not much hope that tribal assemblies, however well planned, will be able to unify the country and set it on the road to recovery.
Many of the Afghan warlords have fought both the invading Soviets in the 1980s and later, the Taliban.
NPR: For Afghan Fighter the War Continues as Loyalties Shift
The local warlords, who probably profit from the trade, pay little heed to Mr Karzai or his police.
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Gilmore's film work included roles in several of the Carry On films and a memorable lead in the cult film Warlords of the Deep, co-starring Doug McClure.
Among the prisoners was Naw Kham, a Burmese man thought to have been one of the most powerful warlords in the Golden Triangle of Thailand, Laos and Burma.
Mr Karzai tried to strengthen the central government and to reduce the power of the independent warlords who still wield real power in Afghanistan, and could yet carve up the country, as they have done in the past.
He was also responsible for a large part of the destruction of Kabul and the rest of the country as were the other warlords.
NPR: For Afghan Fighter the War Continues as Loyalties Shift
Over the past years, as the courts strove to overcome the Mogadishu warlords, they developed militias, some of which have been pooled into a centrally commanded force.
The home ministry is another crucial post that could change, given the rise of local warlords across the archipelago and the challenges presented by decentralising many government activities.
They do so despite knowing that the central government of Hamid Karzai is desperately trying to establish its authority and has been hamstrung by the defiance of the local warlords.
"He wasn't a great Prime Minister but he deserved to face the judgement of the people and not be executed in the middle of the night by the unions and the factional warlords, " he told reporters in Brisbane.
But two of the most powerful warlords, Abdul Rashid Dostum, the Uzbek general who rules over the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, and Ismael Khan, who rules Herat in the west, refused to take the bait.
Afghanistan is too immature to deal with a division of powers, and the might of regional warlords militates against the federalism some would favour, he reckons.
It was the first vote of its kind in the country since warlords toppled military dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991.
General Morgan, one of the most notorious warlords in Somalia, chain-smokes, as his young militia men, sporting sun-glasses and guns, lounge nearby.
The Mai Mai militias began as self-defence forces, but are now simply roving bands of thieves and thugs, often under the control of warlords of no particular politics or loyalty.
Three years ago, after Mr Noguera, its then chief, was charged with putting the agency at the service of paramilitary warlords, a special commission made a series of recommendations to clean up the organisation, but few of these were implemented.
Instead the US and the UK relied on and paid for the services of local warlords.
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