"You hated Vietnam, but you dig Afghanistan"

There's a lot on the news about Afghanistan at the moment. The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), an inspiring social activist and politial agitator group, offer an inside view. (I first heard of them through GY!BE [ha!])

"No doubt the war on terror toppled the misogynist and barbaric regime of Taliban. But it did not remove Islamic fundamentalism, which is the root cause of misery for all Afghan people; it just replaced one fundamentalist regime with another.

Five years have passed since the so-called "democratic" government of Hamid Karzai has been installed but the depth of tragedy and miseries of Afghan people still remain intact. Unlike what is being shown in the media, RAWA and other human rights organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch paint a very different picture of Afghanistan.

Just the increasing amount of women who commit suicides by burning themselves can be the best example of a human rights violation in Afghanistan. According to UNICEF, 65% of 50,000 widows in Kabul think that committing suicide is the only option they have.

US bombs, B52s and the presence of thousands US troops is not to meant to bring about liberation or establish democracy in our country. The people of the US should know that their troops only serve the strategic interests of the US government and make things worse in Afghanistan. Liberation should be achieved by the people of a country and they must fight for their own liberation."

From Afghanistan the Bloodiest Field for Slaughtering Human Rights

"You hated Vietnam, but you dig Afghanistan" (Cester, Cester, Wilson, Muncey)