while the men raze it, their commander shouts at the family that owns the land: i told you to destroy yourselves. hidden from view, a woman screams back in anger but retreats indoors. within minutes, it s all gone the poppy that this family spent months going. their son is detained for defying the ban. released later with a warning. we ve been given rare access to the taliban campaign to eradicate poppy in the province. they have been at it for five months already. so now, we have to get to more remote areas, near the border with pakistan, to find standing crop. farmers here know how harmful opium is. there are high levels of
taliban old antinarcotics unit. deep in afghanistan, they stop when they see it. their commander shouts at the family that owns the land. i told you to destroy yourselves. hidden from view, a woman screams backin hidden from view, a woman screams back in anger but retreats and doors. within minutes it is all gone. the poppy that this family spent months going. their son is detained for defying the ban. released later with a warning. we ve been given rare access to the taliban campaign to eradicate poppy in the province. they have been at
on it, with experts suggesting that opium farming is down by as much as 80% in a year. but in a country reeling from an economic crisis, farmers say this is just another blow. our correspondent yogita limaye has sent this report from afghanistan. men who were once fighting for this land now control it. and they re enforcing the diktat of their leader. this is a taliban antinarcotics unit. deep in eastern afghanistan, they stop when they see a field of poppy. while the men raze it. ..their commander shouts at the family that owns the land. i told you to destroy it yourselves. hidden from view, a woman screams back in anger but then retreats indoors.
..their commander shouts at the family that owns the land. i told you to destroy it yourselves. hidden from view, a woman screams back in anger but then retreats indoors. within minutes, it is all gone. the poppy that this family spent months growing. their son is detained for defying the ban. released later with a warning. we ve been given rare access to the taliban s campaign to eradicate poppy in nangarhar province. they have been at it for five months already. so now we have to get more remote areas near the border with pakistan to find standing crop. so, the field to the right, that s already been destroyed.
american air strikes hammer them. that s the intensity and proximity of the fighting here, the air strikes are called in right next to iraqi forces. they even feel the rubble landing in their faces. perhaps because this really is the end, some of them appear to give themselves up. a sniper still there. they re welcomed. carry him, carry him, the commander shouts. after the propaganda, now we finally see what the iraqi soldiers see is the true human and defeated face of ooiisis. this man is asked how he got here. isis forced me here, he insists.