Afghanistan timeline October 2000
A three-day
cease-fire is called to allow
UN medical officers to continue providing polio vaccinations for children displaced by the fighting. A massive
campaign to immunize approximately 4.5 million children in
Afghanistan, one of only 30 countries where the
disease still exists, began in early June.
A ban on the
farming of
opium poppies, from which
heroin is derived, is introduced by the
Taliban authorities.
