A Fateful Harvest - part 1 - Afghanistan under siege

[Primer9]

@philchelt dick i know its fucked up , but wtf yo

[silver760]

Within the first three minutes there is a lie "Prior to 2002 poppy cultivation was legal" .Prior to 2001the Taliban broke the hands and legs of poppy farmers to stop them from farming poppies,they did this under pressure from the outside world who was withholding aid unless the Taliban did something to reduce opium production,as a result opium production dropped to almost zero under the Taliban,after the US removed the Taliban production exploded as there was no one to police it

[williweb9788]

If they want to eat, grow food, not dope.

[procenten2]

"we have to grow poppys to eat" Why dont they grow food directly instead?

[Primer9]

oh shit i laughed so hard that kid is crying because of his poppy plants

[burkskurk82]

when was this published?

[nouman80]

To all you dicks on your high horses , Think about it like this.

When you kill someone in the US , By mistake , its manslaughter. Ok . When you kill someone in self defense, Its classified as SELF DEFENSE.

So if your dying , and you have to make money for food, would you not grow a fucking crop?

Same thing on both sides. Theyre both just trying to survive.

[schassse]

I think big corporations should buy those lands and grow potatoes

[mrbeatnikjd]

Western nations should purchase the opium crop at fair prices and then process it into pain medications for use in medicine and they could also supply third world nations that are facing a shortage of medical grade pain medications. It would be a win win for everyone.

[newfful]

They shouldn't destroy their poppy crops. That's their only source of income.

[JyonasanVolkov]

First, the US tries helping ourselves from the Great Depression. We all worked together. Then World War II, Vietnam War, War in Afghanistan to the US & UN fighting the Taliban. Our country, including Afghanistan, was left in ruins. But we were lucky. We started donating to Africa charities — „Just 14¢ a day“ — & we end up in a national debt. HOW CAN WE HELP OTHERS IF FIRST WE DO NOT HELP OURSELVES?!

[beandip321]

who gives a fuck? let em do what they wanna do, it aint our country to fuckk witt. america juss like gettin in erry body elses business nd' shit. fuckk datt.

[1andycody]

@beandip321

must you even typ in your shitty ghetto acent? go to school kid

[666ASPEN666]

buhuu damn crybaby! They are destroying our opium.. lol i planted some today (first time) hope it grows well.

[cecopiteco]

3:36 send the brat to guantanamo !!!!

[TheKirstianne]

This is so sad, Children and people shouldn't and arn't meant to live like this. It would be nice to try and make a change somehow.

[roboedar]

2:12 LOL. You know you're in Afghanistan when they measure the weight of your opium by placing a handful of AK47 bullets on the other end of the scale.

[93iasonas93]

@roboedar Only in American and Europian docs

[roboedar]

@93iasonas93 stop smoking opium....

[93iasonas93]

@roboedar ???That was too meaningless.

[orlie100]

psyco kid. 

[trankuser9]

Been a user for many years and seen Documentary's like this many times,too much cash is made on both sides,I know it will never stop because people like me like using gear.Drug enforcement doesn't want it to stop anymore than I do b'cos they wouldnt have a job to go to.

[orlie100]

@trankuser9 that kid is crazy.

[JubeProductions]

i can't imagine why kids like in this video that are crying when the US destroys his family's poppy fields grow up to hate the US. he doesn't know what damage his crop does, he just knows that it's his family's only source of income and the US has come and eradicated it.

[93iasonas93]

@JubeProductions opium isn't so harmful. What has US te do with the poppy crops? Don't tell me that they destroy the crops to protect Americans from heroin because if they wanted to protect their citizens, they would have find the dealers, even junkies can do that, without making kids hungry.

[MrJonandhelen]

love all this "show" footage for the public. Ive seen some of these fields being destroyed AFTER the opium was harvested. Dont forget folks, the C.I.A are the biggest coke and smack dealers on the planet. So, myself included, all help with costs of the very soon to be NEW WORLD ORDER.

[williameva]

allah akbar mother bitches

[TheEmarbe]

@williameva what does god have to do with it?

[Hipster420]

Why don't the pharmaceutical companies of the world buy up the Afghanistan harvest?? Morphine, Codeine, and Oxycotton are all made from opium poppies. It would be a win win.

[rx7dren]

@Hipster420 the do it in Australia you think they would do it there and that will only make sense, but we all know the army didn't do there for opium plants

[crazymanthomas1654]

@Hipster420 thats probably what they do in secret!!! think opium is illegal in northamerica so where will they get it from? other countries! thats the answer!!

[citizenlizard]

It shouldn't be illegal...it's just a plant. It's not the government's concern if people want to grow it or take it.

[limabeing]

who supplies the pharmacies with all the opiates

[georgekush]

@limabeing afghanistan, holland, and the united states

[MrJonandhelen]

@limabeing TURKEY GROWS MOST OF THE WORLDS PHARMACEUTICAL GRADE HEROIN AND SELL IT TO A GERMAN COMPANY. BAYER OR SOMEONE.

[gq786]

ahmed karzai is a faggot ...he needs to help these people US or CANADA cant do all the work....right that faggot karzai needs to too...

[kreamysurprise]

Those fuckers put that poor kids crying family out on the street, and why? People are always going to seek out illegal drugs, those tractors didn't do shit.

[Agedjbadman]

3:55 come to america we have plenty of food

[bkillinsoftly]

That kid crying sucks. I say that if people want to smoke it or inject it let them.

[Eloshly]

people in england gets money from the goverment if they dont urn enoght but in afghanistan their are no work for people like these forget about not urning enouth.

they have no choice.



[Devilock79]

"Prior to 2002, opium cultivation was legal..."

Bullshit. Mullah Mohammed Omar banned poppy cultivation in July 2000 because he said it was un-Islamic. In 2001 the U.S. invades to protect their drug trafficking business and five years later opium production is almost three times higher than it ever was. To thank Mullah Omar, the U.S. bombs his house in Kandahar and kills his 5-year old son and step-father and puts a $25 million bounty on him.

VOA is just a U.S. government propaganda machine.

[Turksarebarbarians]

@Devilock79 " Mullah Mohammed Omar banned poppy cultivation in July 2000 because he said it was un-Islamic". And what did Mullah Omar do and think between c. 1996 and July 2000 , I wonder ? During all that time opium must have been quite Islamic for him as otherwise he and his mates would have banned it as soon as they came to power.

[007alagah]

take look the dealer has no wight on his scale. just bullet and min.

[DraGorian777]

Afghan Army also need to get paid more. Their salary is not that much for that kind of job. They get it from the civilians.

[whatthehell81]

The difference between the poppy field of the crying boys family and the ones not beeing destroyed is that the crops beeing untouched are the ones which the banksters and cia are making money with.

[vjiced]

fucking us bastards making people insanely addict to drugs so they can put them in their privates jails and in the process invade country like afghanistan or pakistan so they can make more prisoners

i hope that little kid at 3:45 become a hell of an insurgent and decapitate thousand of you infidels for creating such suffering

[wellwellwellhello]

nice going.....fuckers. think you are safe creating conflict in every part of this world. orion is waking the masses up. the matrix is over. common people of this world have won.

[Sikke303]

fuck the world !

[Welle92]

get rid of all the drugs, taliban are only forbidding the evil and allowing the lawful.

[iraqiboysyed]

@Welle92 no get rid of those troops in afghanistan

[rockonzeppelin]

0:55 what the fuck is that? Is that a damn air-soft gun? What's with the orange tip?

[Xzandon]

Soon dollar collapses, happy shooting

[xabamsar]

What part of Afghanistan is the music in the beginning from?

[eazie12]

the translation is totally wrong so please stop beliving...

the boy is trying to say he lost every thing he dont have nothing to eat... he dint say they are destroying it for good

[CrashmagFilms]

Oh my God this is such propaganda bullshit. US and UK are the ones pushing for the drug to be made, wake up

[briantotse3]

1:05

Pass that dogshit

[devito108]

america is the source of wars. not you regular americans. its your rulers behind ur presidents. why do you think presidents can't stop war. what did obama promise.

[usnavysss]

dam lol only in Afghanistan you would see someone using bullets and and pmn mine for a weight on a weight scale

[pr5021]

the United Nations including Russia, to collect 850 million in aid to Afghanistan and provide work to the people of Afghanistan and this is just the beginning to help the country

[oddsdiner]

That kids a good actor.

[briantotse3]

@oddsdiner

Actor, lol.

Life sucks for many, many people in Afghanistan. If you're a kid in a poor family like he is, and you owe money or taxes to whoever is in charge locally like his family seems to, the opium harvest is the difference between whether or not you'll have enough money to live on.

[nouman80]

@oddsdiner And your a good fucking asshole. Hes seeing his life go away and hes worried about starving to death , and all you can come up with is " That kids a good actor. " Go fuck yourself .

[superdupering]

WOW sumtimes drugs arnt that bad when it's the only thing that provides money for you, if we can just legalize all the drugs, exept meth, we can be a VERY rich and good country

[xdeliriumx1]

@superdupering Except meth? Dude heroin, crack, and those drugs are just as dangerous as meth. Meth may have the worse effects on your brain but still.

The reason growing opium poppies are one of the only sources of cash for Afghans is the same reason growing coca is the only source of income for Colombians.

They are in countries ravaged by their gvts or war, everything is fucked uyp over there and they have to live somehow. If people really cared about them (US) it could be changed.

[xdeliriumx1]

@superdupering The US has actively contributed in both those cases to ruining both those countries and many others of course.

[devito108]

@xdeliriumx1 recession is man made. its idiot bankers who are trying to bunkrupt us.

[ontariobuds]

this is such bullshit. They dump in hundreds of millions to combat the drugs but when Russia wanted to spray their opium fields the NATO doesn't want them to.

how can you say you are against it when you don't explore your options? options that work!

[abz2000123]

@ontariobuds Before the attacks and the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, State Department officials had often cited Northern Alliance drug trafficking as one reason the U.S. should not publicly support the anti-Taliban militia.

[chardnj]

3:40 so young to know when there's no money there is no food in the future,,,,who ever you are God will bless you or Allah will bless you...I can tell this boy cares...

[farhmoha]

grow saffron instead

[sniperb6]

3:56 little lion

[straken9k1]

That little kid will grow up to hate America and fight it forever. Our foreign policy is AWESOME.

[Mann1979HH]

@straken9k1 THAT is the precisely the point, the AMERICANS don't give him anything as compensation for the LIVING BASIS being destroyed. Is LIVING BASIS a good translation for LEBENDSGRUNDLAGE??? What you need to make a living, we call it LEBENDSGRUNDLAGE, you know what I mean, don't you?

[TheCaptainLulz]

so basically the war on terror has metasticised into yet another war on drugs failure. When is the madness going to stop. The war on drugs is madness.

[Seeether52]

Let those people grow..

Poor bastards.. Crop destroyed.

You won't solve the problems of addiction, by hitting on the poor farmer.

[tribunalfunk]

That lil dude made me cry.

[beezyb42011]

@marymabes i want to know the same answer... i suspect the CIA helps the heroin reach the US

[retardweed]

and thats how a terrorist is made

[marymabes06]

where do the american labs get their opium to make all the lovely pain meds?

[opiatkiinq]

@marymabes06 America only gets there opium from turkey and india for medical production, NO where else, how ever if there is a major need for it They will import but no more than 20% from aus and a couple other places, but THIS has never happened so i don't expect it to ever happen either...

[mattbourke]

@marymabes06 Turkey, Turkey is the largest supplier of legal poppy for morphine in the world some countries like Australia for instance grow there own.

you asked the question and I just answered it

[coocaran]

Except this is a complete distortion of the truth. Opium production was at virtually zero up until 2002. since then it has skyrocketed to todays levels of around 96%. I am sure that there are some very powerful groups in Russia, europe and yes America belive it or not that were very happy to see the multi billion pond heroin trade up and running again.

[MrAFG143]

its my country i know it does'nt have any thing any more to gain plz leav it

[happiness6589746]

the land of the graveyard of empires even b4 Jesus was born this land has been under attack from foreigners. there is nothing to gain in that desert.

[tonylee1973]

I don't think there is any hope for this country. They excel at fighting and that seems to be about it. Economy, infrastructure, education. none of this seems important to these people. I feel bad about it because I would like to see something good happen for this country. But I don't see any hope.

[TheFamousExtreme]

Afghanistan is so horrible!

[ilprincipino4]

Show me a country which has been ravaged with war for 20-30 years and is beautiful....

[xabamsar]

@ilprincipino4 Afghanistan

[Caretika]

@ilprincipino4 America; we've been in perpetual war since our founding, declared or not war is war, especially the Latin American interventions, and a few Asian expeditions(excluding WW2). But, yeah. We have been the only country I can think of that has been at war since it's founding.....wait..there is also Israel..NOW I get it!!! By helping the Jewish people, we can GUARANTEE that will will be in perpetual war till somebody kicks our asses so that maybe that way the Elites will be humbled.

[VoidOnTuesday]

@ilprincipino4 Afghanistan, except think more like 4000 years of war

[skorpionsks]

@ilprincipino4

England and France. 116 years.

[chaghar]

@ilprincipino4 japan and germany. at the end of ww2 both countries were bombed to the ground and there was nothing left. and look at them now.

[403766]

@chaghar

Yeah but they were good countires before with good economies, and it didn't happen for 30 years, totally fucking up the mindset of the people.

[XxZmasterxX]

dont forget about the cake

[bhoussock]

'we are just growing poppy for the bagels! What about those bagels!!'

[subcoolfl]

see, Muslims helping out Jews. World peace is close at hand.

[TVguy9999]

Here's a crazy idea...farmers should harvest plants and vegetation that can be EATEN. Food to feed their families instead of poppy. The government is not all to blame.

[sistermol]

its possible to eat opium

its also possible to make tea from it

[DasZoot]

"Ideas" are things that come out of your brain, not your ass, you pathetic little retard. Afghan farmers don't just need food, they need money, and they can't make enough from other crops.

[Ojokernegro]

@TVguy9999 guess they didn't think of that.

[xdeliriumx1]

@TVguy9999 Dude when ytour in a country under war perhaps its the only really profitable crops, kinda like coca in Colombia for isolated farmers who would have to travel miles just to find markets to sell their crops. This is true in many other countries, maybe its the only way they can actually live, a means of survival so yes the gvt I mean US gvt is hugely to blame in this because it revived poppy cultivation to incredible levels.

[basak983]

This boy will grow up and take revenge don;t worry we afghans will NEVER forget. soon we will kick the invaders out of our mighty land

[s33thr3w]

propaganda

[bbqplatypus]

gotta love scare journalists

[naki61]

The documentary illustrates 2 grave mistakes in terms of true and informative journalism.

1 - Opium was NOT legal before 2002. In fact there was FAR less of it before 2002.

2 - When the boy is crying, and is asked why, he says the crops are all they can do to put food on the table - yet the substitles omits this.

[mattftft]

We take their poppy they chop off our heads and blow out vehicles to dust... Umm fair trade 

[pakhtunzindabad]

all i see is sm one in pain wat is our fault that we have to go through this time to time we hav been used for others benefits its never gona change coz no one would like to save us we all moved on to better life in countireis who done this to us and wats left is the one with no hope for tommorow

[rwnministries]

Heroin addicts are going to get their fix. I think it's OK that the money goes to the poor Afghanis. They've suffered under the Soviets, the Taliban, and now NATO forces running around hunting terrorists. These people need cash. They're NOT bad people because they grow poppies! They're poor peasants that have suffered more than almost any people on the earth. Be glad that our addict's $ is helping people that need it, not going to drug lords in Colombia or the Mexican drug barons...

[heatfilter]

How about taking all of their poppy and giving them a variety of food seeds and farm animals so that they can survive on their own and not destroy the world over with drugs. About colombians and mexicans; we need to vote to make marijuana legal and in turn the trade will cease. On this note, it will be so much easier to spot other types of drug trade. Marijuana is not worth chasing but cocain and heroin is. The only reason why these drug lords get rich is because of our own government's fault.

[twizz420]

These Afghani opium farms are all owned by one person.

[SNOOPDOG0707]

well the taliban wants to flood the west with heroin as an act of terrorism. the taliban just wants to destroy america by supplying it with heroin. its an odd form of terrorism but its still terrorism

[mikeyaaa]

stupid kid...yes they are destroying your field

but you are destroying out streets with H

[sankhan99]

Facts in this documentry are not true first in Taliban era cultivation of poppy was banned and people get sever punishmnets if foud cultivating poppy. Second now Hamid Karzi brother Wasifi handles all opium business with other warloards with blessing of CIA. Afghanistan's total drugs export is $3 trilion(from which locals get upto 4 billion rest CIA use for its covert operations around the world)

[tgvas]

just remain asleep!

The Taliban pretended to be against the drug trade, in fact, they ran their regime on it, and when we went in, the oppressed drug lords just lost their mafia GODFATHER and got us as the next boss.

[cetnikz]

I have studied this and while I am no expert I did find that Afghanistan under Anglo-American occupation has actually increased.The UN's numbers indicate that from 2005-2007Afghan production has doubled.The sad truth is that as in Vietnam Western Intelligence services use opium and heroin sales to finance secret or "Black" operations.

[streetwarrior31]

thanks....but for some people that dont want to open their eyes to see the numbers, prefer to act being naive and saying that all this is just "" conspiracy theoris" and it´s impossible that USA and other governs are involve in this scams, like some guys in the videos "" afganistam heroin 1;2 " .

The question of Drug farms and plantations are easy to resolve, but isnted of it, the governs dont wanted to give subs and other plants to farmers to plant, insisting to try to vanish just to cover it

[DyingSun666]

@cetnikz

the US suddenly got interested in Afghanistan when the Recession started

[briantotse3]

@cetnikz

Yes, but they've never been involved at such a low level, they've always dealt in trafficking, middle-men so to speak. The reason that production has increased is more due to it being generally a low priority compared to other things. The local cops, the government and our armies all have bigger things to worry about.

Aside from that, we're losing our grip on things even further. The situation there has been deteriorating for some time now.

[VoidOnTuesday]

@cetnikz sad but true. Think about the contras.

[lameristotel]

Damn it, i feel so sorry for those people.

[buzai12]

USA had invaded Afg cuz they need opium

[22reTOYOTA]

Yep you are right. You must be a brain surgeon,or a rocket scientist. Check into Mensa,you should be able to pass the test.

[3adfa]

they should farm it 4 medicinal use in usa/uk etc......there is a shortage of diamorphine in the world and here they are destroying it...what sense in that,,,

[jdmmotorscanada]

these farmers are lying and pretendeing they are all talibans and fkn trying  to double play with americans they have money more that a doctor owns in usa....so think of it..these skrrrs are just lying..

[maddcatone]

you are as ignorant as they get. You are completely wrong. you try growing any other sustainable crop, in a desert, with less than 20 dollars a year income. You are the skrrr who is not fit for life on such and amazing planet.

[ismokegreentrees]

it would have been funny if they planted mines in their fields..that would have stopped the tractors.

[fridogg]

it funny that these opium and coca farmers make very little money. They jusy grow the crop

[scottNcolcty]

you can see the hate in his eyes !

[icp4life92]

there not stupid im 16 and u know that if this was going to happen cuz i would already know cuz they been warned that i would have back up opium for the hard times so they probly have millions hidden some where to sell!!!!!

[Gaffhart77]

They have destroyed our crop! WAAAAAH! How are we gonna eat?! WAAAAAAAH! kinda sad tho

[Mrgyn]

Thank's for the upload, I'm just getting off a heroin addiction right now. I'm almost of my methadone, It always interested me (although where I'm from the Dope is usually South Asian) that the powder I was addicted to comes from these places.

[donttrustany1]

"Banned since 2002"...this is simply not true. The Taliban made opium production illegal, as they are RELIGOUS FUNDAMENTALISTS, and drugs are against their fundamentals. This fact is not even disputed by the US gov't. Since the Taliban has been overthrown opium production has sky rocketed.

[emailnozi]

The Taliban attempted to ban it... then realized they needed the money. They were ok with it as long as it was not used by Muslims. In fact, heroin in the U.S. is called Binnys... as it has a picture of Osama Bin Laden on them. Go ask your local heroin addict.

[XXUWUXX]

If I were those farmers I would be shooting at the asses destroying my crop

[619balla]

haah