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Wednesday
May272009

Illiteracy Epedemic In Afghan Police

Karen Hall, the Afghanistan Police Program Manager for the State Department, talks about how the Afghan police force has a 75 percent illiteracy rate which makes even the simplest tasks, such as filling out a police report, nearly impossible. She cites this as one of the main reasons why the Afghan security forces have been so ineffective in their own country.
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