helicopter flying over the area south of Farah was struck by the continual succession of steep and rocky mountains that rise on broad desert plains.
you sense the presence of man from the grooves of ancient caravan routes from the hub faint trail that follows with a look, do you find rare and small groups of houses in the same color of the soil almost invisible already a few hundred meters.
you sense the presence of man from the grooves of ancient caravan routes from the hub faint trail that follows with a look, do you find rare and small groups of houses in the same color of the soil almost invisible already a few hundred meters.
These villages, which are not even marked on maps represent a world still, no longer able to survive based on their criteria and incapacitated thousands of years, poverty and ignorance resulting from illiteracy, to organize a different future.
Only 5% of the Afghan population is literate and live mostly in cities and larger countries that, with their suburbs, receive most of the villagers, estimated at between 30 and 32 million.
Photo © GIUSEPPE LAMI
This means that there are millions of people human totally left to themselves, cut off from any possibility of economic and social development. The mud buildings in which they live are without water, sanitation, energy sources and are situated in an environment where the temperature drops below zero in winter and in summer reaches and often exceeds 46 degrees.
In these villages the population living in proximity, with very little contact with the outside world, children routinely suffer sexual abuse.
Speaking of the condition of women is useless in this reality, women do not have a condition !
There is no television, radio, telephone, internet, newspapers, health care and education to help overcome the limits of the oppressive and often cruel sharia, the sacred law of Islam, played here in patterns primitive.
These villages are large pools of laborers of the insurgents as well as urban decay, corruption, ignorance and poverty are in certain areas of southern Italy the employment office for organized crime.
Photo © GIUSEPPE LAMI
Photo © GIUSEPPE LAMI
ISAF is essential to create channels communication with the population of these villages to gain their confidence and be able to engage in numerous social and economic development projects being implemented by the international community.
To Therefore, in the West Regional Comand operates a special department of the Italian Army, the 28th Regiment Communication Operations Pavia that, despite its name, has its headquarters in Pesaro.
The Pavia is the only Department of the Army and the Italian Armed Forces specializes in so-called "Operational Communications " or PsyOps (Psychological Operations) that can be summed up in all those actions that allow create, improve or consolidate the consent of the local population.
The flight to Vienna Patrol Venice by Gabriele D'Annunzio, the famous launch of leaflets or broadcasts Radio London during the Second World War represent two typical cases of historical and PsyOps.
The task force of Pavia which is based in Herat is made up of about thirty soldiers specialized to carry out their activities are also using methods seemingly overcome, such as ads by speakers or, to reach easily the most distant villages, dissemination of leaflets air.
In this case, the technique of "Pavia" studying the message along with Afghan colleagues and prepare equipment for digital printing on the concept cash to work was entrusted to local firms. The messages printed comics are often made to bridge the gap of illiteracy and are designed in such a way that is clear to those who receive them to recognize the source that generated them.
to address specific topics, the regiment also produces TV commercials and radio that are aired by local radio stations by buying the space.
The mission of the 28th Regiment Pavia in Afghanistan is to develop a positive perception of the Afghan population against the Government and its Armed Forces and explain the role of ISAF forces but also to promote the process of reintegration of insurgents who agree to lay down their arms.
In April 2010 the Regional PsyOps Herat has opened a radio station - Radio Azadi Sada and West (Voice of Freedom) - a program that broadcasts news, contacts and insights into Dari and Pashto, the local languages.
Sada Radio Azadi and West is part of ISAF and the radio network with its frequencies and integration with the web covering the whole of Afghanistan.
It 's a radio station dedicated to information and entertainment with the headings included in a schedule where the music of Afghanistan and in Asia now accounts for 60% of the clock.
operational and technical management is entrusted to the military Pavia's Italian , including elements of the Reserve specialize in communication, and journalists are all Afghans and speak fluent English.
In programs are naturally explains the success of the Afghan security forces against drug trafficking and insurgents, but also the efforts of our military contingent, which often work in harmony with NGOs or with the cooperation of our Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
To facilitate contacts with people living further away from the big cities the soldiers of the Regiment engaged in an activity of Relations Building Items that the distribution of objects that help build relationships like notebooks, pens, brochures, bags and bags, flashlights without batteries, soccer balls and other gadgets, in the case of radio Relations Building Items consist of thousands of transistors that can operate at green energy sunlight or with a crank that drives a dynamo with which you can also load the battery of a mobile phone.
Sada and Radio Azadi and followed, and treated her for the topics (sports, the lives of famous people, life and women's rights, health, childhood) and for the quality the signal for the professionalism with which they process information. In addition the radios distributed by the Regiment Pavia as well as on FM can be tuned to the other wavelengths allowing to listen to other radio stations facilitated the process of analysis and criticism are necessary to provide the consent.
This is also a way to return to Afghanistan within the fold of normalcy .
Certainly it is difficult to establish the meaning and limits of what is normal , but using simple words, one could say that things are beginning to become normal when, as an alternative to terror, violence, abuse, ignorance and misery, they begin rise to new companies (400 in Herat alone) and therefore employment opportunities, open hospitals and clinics but also for banks and consumer credit, the cars are badged, importers are starting to pay customs duties, and especially children girls go to school, you can meet at the cafe and talk about everything, or a shave in a barber shop and buy books and newspapers to read freely. Normality starts even when the issues are resolved in court and not AK47 shots or dagger and created political and trade union representatives and the population is surveyed and provided with identification documents.
All this for us Europeans is normal to the point that we forget the path by which we won.
And if there is a minority in Afghanistan who oppose this normalization with weapons and terror and that is countered by the legitimate government even someone with weapons in Europe says that Afghanistan has been invaded by a coalition of bad, forgetting or ignoring that bad have spoken on a mandate of ' UN.
This is an exemplification of course extreme, but definitely above average knowledge that the Italians - including many Members - have the Afghan situation. A partial
mitigating this disinformation have to accept the fact that our major newspapers and national news a few dedicated spaces stunted and superficial foreign policy and international issues.
operational and technical management is entrusted to the military Pavia's Italian , including elements of the Reserve specialize in communication, and journalists are all Afghans and speak fluent English.
In programs are naturally explains the success of the Afghan security forces against drug trafficking and insurgents, but also the efforts of our military contingent, which often work in harmony with NGOs or with the cooperation of our Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
To facilitate contacts with people living further away from the big cities the soldiers of the Regiment engaged in an activity of Relations Building Items that the distribution of objects that help build relationships like notebooks, pens, brochures, bags and bags, flashlights without batteries, soccer balls and other gadgets, in the case of radio Relations Building Items consist of thousands of transistors that can operate at green energy sunlight or with a crank that drives a dynamo with which you can also load the battery of a mobile phone.
Sada and Radio Azadi and followed, and treated her for the topics (sports, the lives of famous people, life and women's rights, health, childhood) and for the quality the signal for the professionalism with which they process information. In addition the radios distributed by the Regiment Pavia as well as on FM can be tuned to the other wavelengths allowing to listen to other radio stations facilitated the process of analysis and criticism are necessary to provide the consent.
This is also a way to return to Afghanistan within the fold of normalcy .
Certainly it is difficult to establish the meaning and limits of what is normal , but using simple words, one could say that things are beginning to become normal when, as an alternative to terror, violence, abuse, ignorance and misery, they begin rise to new companies (400 in Herat alone) and therefore employment opportunities, open hospitals and clinics but also for banks and consumer credit, the cars are badged, importers are starting to pay customs duties, and especially children girls go to school, you can meet at the cafe and talk about everything, or a shave in a barber shop and buy books and newspapers to read freely. Normality starts even when the issues are resolved in court and not AK47 shots or dagger and created political and trade union representatives and the population is surveyed and provided with identification documents.
All this for us Europeans is normal to the point that we forget the path by which we won.
And if there is a minority in Afghanistan who oppose this normalization with weapons and terror and that is countered by the legitimate government even someone with weapons in Europe says that Afghanistan has been invaded by a coalition of bad, forgetting or ignoring that bad have spoken on a mandate of ' UN.
This is an exemplification of course extreme, but definitely above average knowledge that the Italians - including many Members - have the Afghan situation. A partial
mitigating this disinformation have to accept the fact that our major newspapers and national news a few dedicated spaces stunted and superficial foreign policy and international issues.
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