No free speech, press, at Afghanistan conference

This is a video about a demonstrator in The Hague against the war in Afghanistan.

Today, at the international Afghanistan conference in The Hague, a Dutch TV journalist team was forcibly ejected, and their press accreditation was withdrawn.

This was because they asked United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: ‘Is it okay if we leave Afghanistan next year?’

Also, a demonstration expressing the majority viewpoint in the Netherlands, that the Afghanistan war should stop, was stopped and turned back by police.

This is a Dutch Socialist Party video against Dutch involvement in the Afghan war.

The head of the British Army announced at the weekend that he stood ready to send 2,000 additional troops to Afghanistan: here.

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