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Afghan hotels: qo hankruvt as Mujahideen check in as guests
IKABUL, June 18: Afghan hotels that once banked on wealthy party members and a few foreigners for survival have begun lo go bankrupt In the less than two months since Mujahideen guerillas began cheeking In us guests, reports AFP.
Foreigners who were required to pay In hard currency fled the hotels as the armed ahters began filling up the suites after ousting ghanistan's Soviet-installed communist regime in late April, hoteliers said.
The caretaker government has made no effort to evict the guests or pay their hotel bills, they said.
The first victim of the April 28 Islamic victory was Kabul's Posh continental hotel, which rapidly filled up with Mujahideen.
Rifie-toUng fighters and their leaders occupied most of the hotels' 110-doilar-a-day rooms, edging out Journalists and Arab aid workers, and started running up huge restaurant bills.
The slate-owned hotel complained lo Interim President Sibgatullah Mojaddedi last
week that it had run up a bill of about 2.7 billion Afghanis (540,000 dollars) by keeping and feeding the Mujahideen during the pasl month.
Mojaddedi's cash-strapped Finance Minister promised to ball out the hotel with an urgent 224,000 dollar cash injection, but hotel executives say that they have not yet sighted the promised funds.
"We have shut our cash boxes." said one official."
"If we get no money then we will have lo feed them cabbages," he said, amid reports that employees from several departments Including room service had gone without wages since the Islamic takeover.
We dare not shut down... we would be punished," said the executive, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Nervous waiters serve the raucous Mujahideen sipping green tea or eating In the hotel's main restaurant but never delay a moment at the tables.
Tips ... we do not even bring our personal money to the hotel. Allah knows who has what
in mind," said a veteran waiter.
The continental began double-locking doors after scores of fighters left for the hills Thursday to celebrate the Muslim festival of Eid without checking out. But executives said they would be back Sunday with their machineguns and bazookas.
The Splnghar hotel In the eastern city of Jalalabad fell victim too. Its management simply gave up and left the lush complex after reportedly failing to feed or house the swarms of Mujahideen.
“It was impossible," said one employee after reaching here Friday from the esternclty, now home to tens of thousands of Islamic fighters belonging to seven Mujahideen groups. I
"it is a total chaos here," said a senior! source from the capital's once gracious but] now batlle-scarrcd Kabul hotel, adding that the management last week shut its restaurant after the government failed to fool the bills of fighters occupying the state-owned complex.
The imposing hotel, which once entertained royalty and aristocracy, Is now the bas-
tion of Mujahideen commanders from various political and ethnic groups.
The hotel, located In the city center, more recently served as listening post of ousted President Najibullah's KGB-slyle secret Khad police. It also hosted visiting businessmen and reporters.
They are our Mujahideen brothers ... they can do what they want." said a member of the hole! staff, who tried to keep the place running in hope the current political turmoil would draw guests with loaded billfolds.
The hotel belongs to them," the source said.
With 100 staff and more than 300 rooms, Ihc Kabul hotel has an 80 per cent occupancy — and more than 80 million Afghanis (160,000 dollars) in outstanding bills, one source said.
Like the city of 1.5 million people, the four main hotels are carved up among rival Muhahidcen factions, many of whose leaders send their fighters to find food and rest there before the next day's battle In Kabul.