How are people who have been oppressed for decades—first by Communists, then by warlords, and finally by the Taliban—to understand democracy, let alone implement it…and on a tight timetable, no less? This ABC News program documents the challenges of building democracy in Afghanistan, a place scarred by present conflict and past war, where even the effort to register Afghans to vote is proving almost insurmountably difficult. Contemporaneous events in Pakistan are also considered. (22 minutes)

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