RAWA’s appeal to the UN and World community: ‘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.’
Demanding to Be Heard: ‘Advocates for Afghanistan’s women are pushing to ensure that women’s freedoms are protected under a post-Taliban government.
…As they have seized territory across northern Afghanistan, Northern Alliance officials have announced that women would no longer be forced to live under such severe limitations. Women, they announced, are free to return to work and girls would be allowed to attend schools once more. Still, it remains unclear whether the Alliance will actively protect and ensure women’s freedoms.
Given that most women’s groups have little if any political clout, their political concerns may be largely ignored by foreign diplomats and Afghan politicians alike.’ Mother Jones
Meanwhile, Dan Hartung, at lake effect, opines:
“Signs of defeatism: The defeatists will not recognize that there were Afghans who appreciated our intervention (however self-serving it was in ultimate purpose); who will play down Afghans’ newly reacquired freedoms to play music, watch television, fly kites (a reminder: not child’s play, but a traditional Afghan sport), discard burqas, or to use a soccer stadium for soccer instead of public stonings and executions; who will not celebrate the release of the aid workers (perhaps even legitimizing the nonsense “preaching” charges, which should be offensive to anyone who believes in liberal, secular democracy); who will not recognize the dramatically changed nature of the military operations; who will emphasize that the Taliban executed a “strategic retreat”, a trap into which we are walking (always possible; if so, bring it on); who will scoff at the notion that we are pursuing al Qaeda, even as we target them ever more precisely; who will attribute our strategy to secret plans and motives; who continue to demand “evidence” even as admissions and threats emanate from the cabal.
These people are insane, and the compassionate approach should be to get them help immediately.”
I’m partly with you Dan, but, oh, at least half defeatist. You have clearly chosen sides, but keep your eyes open! Only time, not strength of fervency, will tell.
More defeatist news:
Victorious Alliance says: ‘We don’t want your peacekeepers’:
‘The victorious Northern Alliance provided a foretaste of trouble by insisting yesterday that it would take care of security in Afghanistan and that an international peacekeeping force was unnecessary.
Within the last 48 hours, the alliance has defied the US by capturing Kabul and has rejected calls from America, Britain and the United Nations to create a broad-based government that would include moderate elements of the Taliban.
The latest alliance rebuff and the re-emergence of feudal warlords in the south of the country dampened celebrations in Washington and London over the ease with which Kabul fell on Tuesday.’ Guardian UK
Massacre threat to Taleban’s foreigners:
‘Northern Alliance forces have threatened to massacre up to 6,000 foreigners fighting with the Taleban in the besieged province of Konduz.
Local fighters would be given a chance to surrender, but Alliance commanders said they had given their troops explicit orders to shoot every foreign fundamentalist ? including a handful of British Muslims ? among the enemy ranks.’ Times of London
Afghans Returning Home, Vindicated and Vengeful
:
‘Drenched with joy, shadowed by bloodlust, the self-repatriation of Iran’s huge Afghan population is under way. This border town, about 10 miles from Afghanistan, has for years been a way station for Afghans coming to Iran to work or escape persecution. Now the traffic is flowing the other way….
(Some) made clear that the war was far from over, and that it could continue on a disturbingly intimate scale. Some said they were going home to finish off the Taliban for good, and suggested that neighbors who had not sufficiently opposed the Taliban would also be called to account.
After their relatives had been killed, their property taken, their dignity assaulted, some returnees said it was impossible to simply go home and pick up their plows, pretending nothing had happened.’ NY Times [“FMHreader”, “FMHreader”]
