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Saturday, May 14, 2016

Independent: Heckling of Afghan president at Anti-Corruption Summit gives glimpse of country's divisions

Ashraf Ghani was four minutes into his speech when a young Afghan in the audience stood up and started shouting :“You are a liar! You have lied to the Afghan people and now you are lying to the world! I worked for you, I know all about you!"
The august Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in Whitehall had not seen anything like this before. Stunned silence was followed by gasps as Afghan security men dragged the heckler, yelling "You are a disgrace”, at the Afghan President out of the auditorium. A shaken Mr Ghani restarted the address he had come to deliver after attending the international anti-corruption summit in London on Thursday.
The summit had started amid great embarrassment after David Cameron was caught on video telling the Queen leaders of “fantastically corrupt" countries, Afghanistan and Nigeria, were coming... Continue Reading....
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