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- Ycc2106 on 2008-05-25 - Tags woman , afganistan , fosto , opium
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Struggling Afghan farmers may have to pay a lot more than interest to loan sharks in their war-torn country. Some gangsters have demanded the sale of daughters as a means of recovering their debts, with the threat of death hanging over the entire family as an alternative. As Newsweek notes, even flight has its limitations:
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