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<TD><SPAN class=source>RAWA communiqué on Universal Human Rights Day,
Dec.10, 2007</SPAN> <BR><BR><BR>
<H1>The US and Her Fundamentalist Stooges are<BR>the Main Human Rights
Violators in Afghanistan </H1><BR><BR>
<P class=text>The US and her allies tried to legitimize their military
occupation of Afghanistan under the banner of “bringing freedom and
democracy for Afghan people”. But as we have experienced in the past three
decades, in regard to the fate of our people, the US government first of
all considers her own political and economic interests and has empowered
and equipped the most traitorous, anti-democratic, misogynist and corrupt
fundamentalist gangs in Afghanistan. </P>
<DIV class=sidephoto style="WIDTH: 330px"><IMG
alt="Human rights violations widespread across Afghanistan"
src="http://www.rawa.org/images/baghlan_child.jpg"><BR>Human rights
violations are widespread across Afghanistan <BR></DIV>
<P class=text>In the past few years, for a thousand times the lies of US
claims in the so-called “War on terror” were uncovered. By relying on the
criminal bands of the Northern Alliance, the US made a game of values like
democracy, human rights, women’s rights etc. thus disgracing our mournful
nation. The US created a government from those people responsible for
massacres in Pul-e-Charkhi, Dasht-e-Chamtala, Kapisa, Karala,
Dasht-e-Lieli, 65,000 Kabulis and tens of mass graves across the country.
Now the US tries to include infamous killers like Mullah Omer and
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar into the government, which will be another big
hypocrisy in the “war against terror”. </P>
<P class=text>The reinstatement of the Northern Alliance to power crushed
the hopes of our people for freedom and prosperity into desperation and
proved that for the Bush administration, defeating terrorism so that our
people can be happy, have no significance at all. The US administration
plays a funny anti-Taliban game and pretends that a super power is unable
to defeat a small, marginalized and medieval-minded gang which is actually
her own product. But our people found by experience in the past few years
that the US doesn’t want to defeat the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, because then
they will have no excuse to stay in Afghanistan and work towards the
realization of its economical, political and strategic interests in the
region. </P>
<P class=text>After about seven years, there is no peace, human rights,
democracy and reconstruction in Afghanistan. On the contrary, the
destitution and suffering of our people has doubled everyday. Our people,
and even our unfortunate children, fall victim to the Jehadis’ infighting
(Baghlan incident), the Taliban’s untargeted blasts and the US/NATO’s
non-stop bombardments. The Northern Alliance blood-suckers, who are part
of Karzai’s team and have key government posts, continue to be the main
and the most serious obstacle towards the establishment of peace and
democracy in Afghanistan. The existence of tens of illegal private
security companies run by these mafia bands are enough to realize their
sinister intentions and the danger they pose. </P>
<P class=text>Human rights violations, crime, and corruption have reached
their peak, so much so that Mr. Karzai is forced to make friendly pleas to
the ministers and members of the parliament, asking them to “keep some
limits”! Accusations about women being raped in prisons were so numerous
that even a pro-warlord woman in the parliament had no choice but to
acknowledge them. </P>
<P class=text>Rabbani, Khalili, Massoud, Sayyaf, Fahim, Ismael and other
criminals for the sake of being “ISI” and “VEVAK” agents could become
“leaders” in the early 90’s, invited their god-father General Hamid Gul of
ISI to become their army chief. But today they raise anti-Pakistan slogans
to hide their corruption and wrong-doings. In this act they even go
further and abuse Pakistani people. But they never talk about the dirty
act of Pakistan in creating fundamentalist bands and imposing them on our
people. More importantly, they keep silent about the wider, more
devastating and more active meddling of the brutal Iranian regime in
Afghanistan through its cultural and media agents. Pro-Iranian regime
politicians and intellectuals are as much traitorous to democracy and
human rights as the intellectuals and politicians who, from an
ethnocentric and reactionary point of view, call the barbarism and terror
of Taliban a “national armed resistance,” and shamelessly defend them.
</P>
<P class=text>The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
(RAWA) has announced a number of times that when the legislative,
administrative and judicial bodies are ruled by drug-lords and warlords or
their Talibi, Gulbudini, Parchami and Khalqi accomplices, they will never
do anything positive for our deprived people. Rather these bodies will act
as a mechanism to continue the ongoing crime, drug-trade and looting by
these mafia bands to become richer. </P>
<P class=text>If the US government replaces Karzai with a new puppet, even
if he is not from among the Jehadi criminals, it will be just a deception
of our people and an attempt to put the responsibilities of today’s
tragedies on the shoulders of a single person. Such a move will have no
positive outcome for our nation. Only a president who rely on people and
come to power through a fair election, free from any kind of dependence or
dealings with the fundamentalists, would be ideal for Afghan people. </P>
<P class=text>Instead of defeating Al-Qaeda, Taliban and Gulbuddini
terrorists and disarming the Northern Alliance, the foreign troops are
creating confusion among the people of the world. We believe that if these
troops leave Afghanistan, our people will not feel any kind of vacuum but
rather will become more free and come out of their current puzzlement and
doubts. In such a situation, they will face the Taliban and Northern
Alliance without their “national” mask, and rise to fight with these
terrorist enemies. Neither the US nor any other power wants to release
Afghan people from the fetters of the fundamentalists. Afghanistan’s
freedom can be achieved by Afghan people themselves. Relying on one enemy
to defeat another is a wrong policy which has just tightened the grip of
the Northern Alliance and their masters on the neck of our nation. </P>
<P class=text>By publishing the book “Some Documents of the Bloody and
Traitorous Jehadi Years”, RAWA has taken another small step in unmasking
and prosecuting the war criminals of the past three decades. But we will
not stop here. In the face of continuous threats by the terrorists sitting
in the parliament and the government, we will not be intimidated and
despite the passivity and compromises of intellectuals in this regard, we
are determined that with the help of justice-loving people and
organizations of Afghanistan and around the world, will work to push the
war criminals into a court of justice and reclaim billions of dollars
worth of national assets from them. Only then the eyes of our
grief-stricken people may no longer burn endlessly for justice and
democracy. </P>
<H2>Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)</H2><SPAN
class=centertext>December 10, 2007 </SPAN><BR><BR><BR><BR>
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