Violence in Afghanistan alarms Swiss aid workers.

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The Swiss parliament agreed to send Swiss soldiers to Afghanistan to work with international peace. keeping forces. The decision came as Swiss non-governmental organizations sounded alarm bells over spiralling violence in the country. Representatives of Swiss NGOs working out of Kabul say that although international peacekeeping forces have managed to make the capital, Kabul, relatively safe, dangers abound in other regions.

NGOs have been the targets of a series of attacks, blamed on local warlords and remaining members of the former Taliban regime. Violence against the peacekeeping forces in the country has also escalated.

On June 7, four peacekeepers were killed and 31 people injured in a bomb attack in Kabul. There have also been grenade attacks against the offices of the United Nations and other...

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