Afghanistan Highway Construction

highway construction was generally the most dangerous work in afghanistan, accounting for thirty per cent of more than two thousand contractors killed and nearly three thousand wounded. On just one road project, a sixty mile highway in eastern ghanistan, jan lost 16 workers, 13 dead and three missing, over a fifteen month period. Jan says that he did not engage those members of the talaband for protection or security, and that no money was directly paid for those purposes....