The US has returned fundamentalism to Afghanistan

[kuzadd]

The following is a transcript of the speech given by Malalai Joya, member of the Afghan Parliament, given at the University of Los Angeles on Tuesday April, 10th:

While the pro-democracy and anti-fundamentalists groups and individuals of Afghanistan are being marginalized, suppressed and silenced, you give a helping hand to me as a small voice of my suffering people to speak about the crisis in Afghanistan and terrible conditions of its people. You in fact play your role in raising awareness on what is going on in my devastated country.

Respected friends, over five years passed since the US-led attack on Afghanistan. Probably many of you are not well aware of the current conditions of my country and expect me to list the positive outcomes of the past years since the US invasion. But I am sorry to tell you that Afghanistan is still chained in the fetters of the fundamentalist warlords and is like an unconscious body taking its last breath.

another excerpt, it's quite long.............

The Western media talks about democracy and the liberation of Afghanistan, but the US and its allies are engaged in the warlordization, criminalization and drug-lordization of our wounded land.

Today the Northern alliance leaders are the key power holders and our people are hostage in the hands of these ruthless gangs of killers. Many of them are responsible for butchering tens of thousands of innocent people in the past 2 decades but are in power and hold key positions in the government.

Let me list few of the key power-holders of Afghanistan:

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Karim Khalili, the vice-president, is leader of a pro-Iran party called Wahdat, responsible for killing thousands of innocent people, and named by Human Rights Watch as a war criminal.

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Ismael Khan, another killer warlord and lackey of the Iranian regime is the minister of water and power.

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Izzatullah Wasifi, Afghanistan‚s anti-corruption chief has been a convicted drug trafficker who has spent around 4 years in a Nevada state prison in the US.

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General Mohammed Daoud, Afghanistan‚s deputy interior minister in charge of the anti-drug effort, is a former warlord and famous drug-trafficker.

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Rashid Dostum, the chief of staff of the Afghan army, is a heartless killer and warlord, named by Human Rights Watch as a war criminal.

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Qasim Fahim, former defense minister and now a Senator and adviser to Mr. Karzai is the most powerful warlord of the Northern Alliance, and accused of war crimes.

And this list has hundreds of men on it, including Sayyaf, Ulomi, Golabzoi, Rabbani, Qanooni, Mohaqiq, Mullah Rocketi, etc. They should all be removed from power and put on trial for war crimes. In fact all the major institutions in Afghanistan are occupied by warlords and drug-lords. How can we talk about democracy when our legislative, judicial and executive bodies are infected with the viruses of fundamentalism and drug mafia?

You can read the entire speech, here

http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2007/04/16/1050/

it's also archived at numerous other sites.

it's clearly not a speech for the 'polyanna' crowd, but, for anyone else, who feels, they are not that way, I find it quite interesting, as I am sure other's will.

[Jerry Galinda]

„heartless killer and warlord” – probably true – but it’s obvious that another kind of people don’t exist in the country where war last from about 30 years.

Weak personalities disappeared as a delicate flowers on the desert.