Angry Afghan villagers clash with anti-drug force

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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, April 12 (Reuters) - Afghan villagers attacked government forces trying to destroy an opium-poppy field on Tuesday and at least one anti-narcotics policeman was wounded, a provincial official said.

The violence erupted in the southern province of Kandahar, one of the main poppy-growing regions in the world's main poppy-growing country.

Scores of villagers gathered and started throwing stones at the drug-eradication force and then both sides opened fire with assault rifles, said the official, who declined to be identified.

Opium is the raw material from which heroin is refined.

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1. They still hate us for our freedoms, of course. n/t