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"Of those reporting abuses, 46% reported the killing of a household member; 23% reported the beating of a household member; and 25% reported that a household member had sustained a gunshot wound or was injured from explosive ordnance. Other abuses included the seizure of land and being forced to flee their homes. 75% of survey participants accredited Uzbek forces with the reported abuse and 44% said that they believed the reason for the abuses being committed was their ethnicity. One respondent reported that many women in his home village had been gang raped by Afghan forces of Uzbek origin."
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This website is a tribute to Why War?, one of the nation's first and most innovative post-9/11 student antiwar organizations. Born on October 22, 2001 at Swarthmore College, we were a handful of freshmen and sophmores who vocally opposed the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. And now, seven years later, we are retiring this website as we focus our efforts on new directions. We hope that it continues to serve future activists and we remain confident that humanity is on the verge birthing a better world.
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