Revolutionary Association of the Woman of Afghanistan (RAWA)

From: Stein Erik Jonasson (ejonasso@online.no)
Date: 15-01-02


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Imponerende, sjokkerende og lærerikt!

Her er litt bakgrunn for RAWA:

Long live freedom and democracy!
Down with fundamentalism!
Women's rights are human rights!

http://rawa.fancymarketing.net/rawa.html

RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, was
established in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1977 as an independent
political/social organization of Afghan women fighting for human rights and
for social justice in Afghanistan. The founders were a number of Afghan
woman intellectuals under the sagacious leadership of Meena who in 1987 was
assassinated in Quetta, Pakistan, by Afghan agents of the then KGB in
connivance with fundamentalist band of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. ....

Before the Moscow-directed coup d’état of April 1978 in Afghanistan, RAWA’s
activities were confined to agitation for women’s rights and democracy, but
after the coup and particularly after the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan
in December 1979, RAWA became directly involved in the war of resistance. In
contradistinction to the absolute majority of the vaunted Islamic
fundamentalist "freedom fighters" of the anti-Soviet war of resistance, RAWA
from the outset advocated democracy and secularism. Despite the horrors and
the political oppression, RAWA’s appeal and influence grew in the years of
the Soviet occupation and a growing number of RAWA activists were sent to
work among refugee women in Pakistan. ...

Since the overthrow of the Soviet-installed puppet regime in 1992 the focus
of RAWA’s political struggle has been against the fundamentalists’ and the
ultra-fundamentalist Taliban’s criminal policies and atrocities against the
people of Afghanistan in general and their incredibly
ultra-male-chauvinistic and anti-woman orientation in particular.

Om det "nye" regimet i Kabul:
http://rawa.fancymarketing.net/na-appeal.htm

The people of Afghanistan do not accept domination of the Northern Alliance!

Now it is confirmed that the Taliban have left Kabul and the Northern
Alliance has entered the city. The world should understand that the Northern
Alliance is composed of some bands who did show their real criminal and
inhuman nature when they were ruling Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996. The
retreat of the terrorist Taliban from Kabul is a positive development, but
entering of the rapist and looter NA in the city is nothing but a dreadful
and shocking news for about 2 million residents of Kabul whose wounds of the
years 1992-96 have not healed yet. Thousands of people who fled Kabul during
the past two months were saying that they feared coming to power of the NA
in Kabul much more than being scared by the US bombing.

The Taliban and Al-Qaeda will be eliminated, but the existence of the NA as
a military force would shatter the joyful dream of the majority for an
Afghanistan free from the odious chains of barbaric Taliban. The NA will
horribly intensify the ethnic and religious conflicts and will never refrain
to fan the fire of another brutal and endless civil war in order to retain
in power. The terrible news of looting and inhuman massacre of the captured
Taliban or their foreign accomplices in Mazar-e-Sharif in past few days
speaks for itself.

Though the NA has learned how to pose sometimes before the West as
"democratic" and even supporter of women's rights, but in fact they have not
at all changed, as a leopard cannot change its spots. RAWA has already
documented heinous crimes of the NA. Time is running out. RAWA on its own
part appeals to the UN and world community as a whole to pay urgent and
considerable heed to the recent developments in our ill-fated Afghanistan
before it is too late.

We would like to emphatically ask the UN to send its effective peace-keeping
force into the country before the NA can repeat the unforgettable crimes
they committed in the said years. The UN should withdraw its recognition to
the so-called Islamic government headed by Rabbani and help the
establishment of a broad-based government based on the democratic values.

RAWA's call stems from the aspirations of the vast majority of the people of
Afghanistan.

Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
November 13, 2001



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