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The sex-based apartheid against women in Afghanistan cannot be reduced to, "Afghan men saw Afghan women enjoying freedom and got mad, so they established extremist religious governments to stop it." I am really tired of seeing this misconception and oversimplification spread around by leftists, liberals and feminists – it's racist, and simply not fucking true.

The majority of Afghans want a secular government and for the oppression of women to end. The Taliban represent a minority of Afghanistan's people. The deterioration of Afghan society – in particular, women's rights and freedoms – directly results from decades of foreign intervention, imperialism and occupation. Afghans did not destroy Afghanistan, the United States did, and the USSR paved the way for them to do so.

Had Afghanistan never been treated like a pawn in the games played by imperialistic powers, had we not been reduced to resources, strategic importance and a tool for weakening the enemy, extremism would have never come to power.

An overview of Afghanistan's recent history:

The USSR wanted to incorporate Afghanistan into Soviet Central Asia and did so by sabotaging indigenous Afghan communist movements and replacing our leaders with those loyal to the USSR. The United States began funding and training Islamic extremists – the Mujahideen – to fight against the Soviet influence and subsequent invasion, and to help the CIA suppress any indigenous Afghan leftist movements. Those Mujahideen won the war, and then spent the next decade fighting for absolute control over Afghanistan.

During that time period, known as the Afghan Civil War, the Mujahideen became warlords, each enforcing their own laws on the regions they controlled. Kabul was nearly destroyed, and the chaos, destruction and death was largely ignored by the United States despite being the ones who caused and empowered it. This civil war era created the perfect, unstable environment needed to give a fringe but strong group like the Taliban a chance to rise to power. And after two decades of war, a singular entity taking control and bringing 'peace' was enticing to all Afghans, even if their views were objectively more extreme than what we had been enduring up to that point.

When the United States invaded Afghanistan in 2001, they allied with the same warlords that had been destroying our country the decade prior and whom they had rallied against the Soviets – these are the people that made up the Northern Alliance. The 'good guys' that America gave us were rapists, pillagers, and violent extremists, no better than the Taliban. And that's not even mentioning the horrible atrocities and war crimes committed by American forces themselves.

So, no, Afghan men did not collectively wake up one day and decide that women had too much freedom and rush to establish an extremist government overnight. No, this is not to excuse the misogyny of men in our society – the extremists had to already exist for Americans to fund and arm them against the Soviets – but rather to redirect the bulk of this racist blame to the actual culprits. The religious extremism and sex-based apartheid would not be oppressing and murdering us today if they hadn't been funded and supported by the United States of America thirty years ago. And despite all the abuses and restrictions, many Afghan women prefer the Taliban's current government to another American occupation. I felt safer walking in Taliban-controlled Kabul than I did being 'randomly searched' (sexually assaulted) by American military police in my village as a child.

Imperialism is inextricably linked with patriarchal violence and women's oppression. You cannot talk about the deterioration of Afghanistan without talking about the true cause of said decline: The United States of America. Americans of all political views, including leftists and feminists, are guilty of reducing or outright ignoring Western responsibility for female oppression in the Global South, finding it much easier to place all blame on the foreign brown man or our supposedly backwards, savage cultures, when the most responsibility belongs with Western governments and their meddling games that forced the most violent misogynists among us into power.

(Most of this information comes from my own experience living as an Afghan Hazara woman in Afghanistan, but Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords and the Propaganda of Silence covers this in much more detail. If you want more on the Soviet-Afghan war and Afghanistan's socialist history, Revolutionary Afghanistan is an English-language source from a more leftist perspective)

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15-year-old Hazara activist who narrowly escaped the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, Nila Ibrahimi, addresses the 15th Annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy – see below for her remarks.

Full Remarks  

Good morning everyone.

I’m incredibly honored to be here today with you at the Geneva Summit. Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to share my story.

It was August 15, a beautiful sunny day that soon turned dark and cloudy, casting a shadow over the lives of millions of Afghans, especially the girls and women of my homeland. I had woken up early to study for my last mid-year exam at school, scheduled for the next day.  

A few hours after breakfast, my mother heard from the neighbours that the Taliban had reached Dasht-e-Barchi, the district where we lived, and may take over Kabul soon. My mother had lived through the civil war and the first Taliban regime and had made me understand how miserable and frightening that tyranny was. And now, her worried eyes and shaky hands made me even more scared.  

We ran to destroy our family documents that could put our lives at risk, because it was expected that the Taliban would conduct house to house searches. My father, a former government worker, passed away a month after I was born so the photos, uniforms, and documents were the only memories I had of him. As I watched them burn and turn to ashes, it was as if they had never existed, as if he had never existed. My school certificates as well; I felt so angry and sad to be told to destroy them that I decided to take the risk of keeping them. I knew all of this was only the first spark of a fire that was about to consume our whole lives. 

The weight of the situation was overwhelming, and fear took hold of me. My mother is a great person, but she belongs to the generation of women who were subjugated by the Taliban. This created in them a mindset that they had no right to say no, no right to protest or stand up for themselves. They were made to feel like they were incomplete human beings without a man. Now, there were rumours that the Taliban would marry young girls. I felt helpless and scared for what the future held.  

I am Nila Ibrahimi, a 16-year-old women’s rights activist. My journey of advocacy started when the Kabul Education Directorate banned schoolgirls over the age of 12 from singing in public. As a member of the Sound of Afghanistan Music Group, I found this decision disappointing and aggravating. We were singing for peace, women’s rights, and humanity on different stages and well-known TV channels. In some parts of the world, there are societies that welcome teenage girls who are using their voices to make changes; however, when I heard about the ban, I realized a sad fact about my society: There were people who wanted to silence me solely because of my gender. I had to stand up for my rights for the first time in my life. So, I recorded a video of me singing a song as a call to action for all girls and women. Murtaza, my brother, posted it on social media, alongside the #IAmMySong, and it soon went viral. The movement successfully reversed the decision.    

Later that year, before the fall of Kabul, I was watching President Joe Biden’s briefing on TV regarding his country’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. I vividly recall him sharing a story about his visit there, where he had conversations with several girls. One of them had told him: “If you leave Afghanistan, I will no longer be able to pursue my desire to become a doctor.” She urged him not to abandon Afghanistan. Upon hearing this, tears welled up in my eyes, and my heart splintered, as I could truly empathize with her feelings. She understood the imminent situation and was desperate to hold onto her dreams. Unfortunately, her plea fell on deaf ears. As a 16-year-old, of course I am not aware of all the political complexities, but why couldn’t the US have at least negotiated some form of peace instead of abandoning the country without any resolution?  

So now, the dream of that girl, along with the dreams of millions of other girls and women, were shattered overnight when the US and the international community abandoned Afghanistan. The Taliban, a group with a regressive mindset that deems being a girl or woman a crime, took control in a chaotic and shocking manner.   

To capture my emotions, allow me to share an excerpt from my diary written the day after Kabul fell, “It doesn’t matter when I wake up anymore, because I cannot close my eyes at night. I see everyone terrified of an uncertain future. At breakfast, no one speaks. After breakfast, I don’t know what I am supposed to do. I can’t study. Why should I study now if I am not allowed a future? Humanity is dead all over the world and I am tired of everything. In our airport, people died from stress, heat stroke, dehydration, from being crushed in their desperation to get out. Taliban are everywhere. Some people say they are going to go to every single house to search for guns or take some girls. I am wearing a long dress and covering my face. Am I going to be forced to cover my face all my life? Am I going to be locked up in my home forever?”  

Five days after the fall, my family decided to flee to Pakistan. We were lucky. After eight tense months, the 30 Birds Foundation helped us resettle in Canada. While I feel safer in my new home, every single day, I think of those girls left behind in Afghanistan; left with no hope. In Canada, I make decisions about my life, and embrace the person I aspire to be. But, what about them? 

As I stand here today, I want the world to know that girls have been out of school for 640 days. Universities are also closed off to them. Women have been stripped of everything, their education, their freedom of movement, their right to work, their choice of what to wear, and their ability to participate in public life. This is a grave injustice that denies them their basic human rights, rights that should be afforded to every individual on this planet.  

I am in awe of the immense bravery displayed by Afghan girls and women, who have steadfastly fought for their dreams in the face of the Taliban’s oppression. In the darkest of times, hope becomes our lifeline. It is our collective responsibility to be their hope, to stand with them, and to take action.  

So, I ask you, all of you, be part of this movement. And I ask those of you who have the power and the influence to please lend your voice and actions to support the Afghan girls and women. Let us unite and prove that humanity’s strength lies in its compassion and unwavering commitment to justice. The time for action is now. 

Thank you.

Soomaya Javadi, another young Hazara activist who fled Afghanistan following the fall of Kabul with Nila Ibrahimi, addressed the U.N. Opening of the 15th Annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy, on Tuesday, May 16, 2023.

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Afghanistan’s Hazara Community Needs Protection

Islamic State Armed Group Kills 14 Civilians in Daikundi

The Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), affiliated with ISIS, has claimed responsibly for killing 14 men in Daikundi province this week, the latest attack on the Hazara community in Afghanistan.

The killings took place in a remote border district between Daikundi, which has a predominantly Hazara population, and Ghor provinces, in central Afghanistan. The men were returning from a pilgrimage to Shia holy sites in Karbala, Iraq when gunmen opened fire on the group.

Since emerging in Afghanistan in 2015, ISKP has killed and injured thousands of Hazaras and members of other religious minorities in attacks targeting mosques, schools, and workplaces. After the Taliban took over Afghanistan in August 2021, ISKP has claimed responsibility for at least 17 attacks against Hazaras, killing and injuring more than 700 people.

In October 2021, Human Rights Watch concluded that ISKP bombings and other targeted attacks against the Hazara community amounted to crimes against humanity. Richard Bennett, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, has called for investigations into ISKP attacks. This latest attack underscores the urgent need for the Taliban to take effective measures to protect all at-risk communities in Afghanistan, including Hazaras and other Shia Muslims.

Governments engaging with the Taliban should also call for better protection for these communities and encourage and support mechanisms to strengthen accountability for international crimes committed in Afghanistan.

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I vividly recall the day I met Jamila. While photographing her, the sound of gunshots echoed in the background. I was so stressed, but she remained remarkably calm, as gunshots were unfortunately a common occurrence in Kabul during that period. Jamila grew up in a family of eight siblings and had to start working at an early age to support her beloved ones. At the time we met, she was working in an office, enduring a two-hour commute each way, every day. However, her true passion was acting, and whenever she had the chance, she participated in various projects, including independent films and photoshoots. A few weeks after our meeting, Kabul and the entire Afghanistan fell under the control of the Taliban. From that moment, almost all Afghan women found themselves in a desperate situation. But for Jamila, as an ethnic Hazara with an artistic background, the danger was even greater. Fortunately, Jamila managed to escape the country, first fleeing to Pakistan and then traveling to Bangladesh. Her escape alone could be the subject of a separate story. After arriving in Bangladesh, Jamila tirelessly searched for ways to fulfil her dream and pursue an acting career. Recently, she received her letter of acceptance to a foundation acting course at the prestigious Juilliard School... Jamila believes that this course will be a strong reference for her to apply to the Bachelor of Fine Arts program at the Juilliard School, which is her dream for the near future.

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Boko Haram'ı kuranlar, eğitime kabul verdikleri için binlerce genç kız çocuğu öldürdüler bu güne değin. Boko Haram'ın türkçesi Eğitim Haram demek. Sırf bunun için kurulan bir örgüt... Batı Emperyalizmi bunlara karşı hep sahtekârca bir politika izledi. Karşıymış gibi göründü ama esasta tahkim etti.

Kezâ Taliban, ülkede Üniversite eğitimini kapattığını ilan ettiğinde hiçbir Batılı Devlet müeyyidesine maruz kalmadı. Binlerce genç şimdi evinde oturuyor. Çarşı pazarda avâre.

Yine Hazara Türkleri, her yıl yüzlerce kız okullarından cesetlerini topluyor çocuklarının. Sırf onlar okumasınlar diye onlarca okul, canlı bombalarla patlatılıyor. Ülkede okumak, ateşten gömlek giymek gibi.

Şimdi ise sırada İran var. Bu ülkeye acımasız bir eğitim aksatma saldırısı düzenliyorlar.

Ülke, bir büyük alçaklıkla karşı karşıya.

Nüfusunun %60'dan fazlası 40 yaşın altında olan bu ülkede kız öğrencilerin okul ve yurtlarına karşı sitematik bir kimyasal gaz saldırısı durumu sözkonusu.

Nasıl olduğu, kimler tarafından yapıldığı henüz aydınlatılamayan bu durum, istikrarsızlık ortamı yaratarak eğitimi aksamak amaçlı...

Yaklaşık 100 okula ulaştı saldırılar ve 2 bin civarında öğrenciyi etkiledi. Askeri noktalara değil, okullara açılmış bir savaş. daha önce de Bilim adamları hedefteydi.

Saldırı olur olmaz, ağız birliği etmişçesine ülke dışında konuşlanmış isyan hareketleri, alelacele halkı okulları boykot etmeye, öğrencileri ders bırakmaya çağırıyor. "Katil olay mahallinde" derler ya, o misal...

Okul, okumak, üniversite eğitimi almak, sadece öğretimli değil, eğitimli olmanın da yapıtaşlarıdır. Diyalektik düşünme, sorgulama, güdülmeme'nin barınağıdır bu, genç nesil için.

Buradaki olaylarda toplumu cahil bırakma amacındaki etmenler çok boyutlu ve göründüğü kadarıyla karmaşık bir yapının organizesine benziyor. Bu kötülük organizasyonu, çarkını cehalet taşında döndürdüğü için türlü türlü oyunlar kuruyor. Gençliği, okulsuz etmeyi hedefliyor.

Çok özel ve kapsamlı bir saldırı çeşidine maruz kalan İran, bu konuda en üst düzeyde yaptığı açıklamada oldukça sertti. Hükümet yetkilileri, suçluların yakalanması halinde alacakları cezanın çok ağır olacağını belirtiyorlar.

Cehaleti, bunun doğuracağı tahribatı, kendi kültüründen uzak tutmak için Direniş, büyük emek harcıyor. Eğitimi, her şeyin üstünde tutmaya gayret ediyor. Bilim, İlim, Sanat, Kültür alanlarında mürteci kesimin hükümranlığına set çekiyor.

Ancak gel gör ki, İslam dünyasına IŞİD gibi bir insanlık sorununu sokmuş Batı Emperyalizminde oyun bitmiyor, düşmanlık hız kesmiyor, sömürü iştahı azalmıyor.

Baksanıza vurduğu yere, okul...

Nijerya'da, Afaganistan'da, Irak'ta ve daha bir çok ülkede eğitim alanlarına gerek ateşli silahlarla gerekse de yumuşak savaş tarzında saldırı düzenleyip genç neslin geleceğini tahrip eden Batı Emperyalizminin bu son İran saldırısı, ülkenin yıllardır yaşadığı düşman saldırısında yeni ve enteresan bir çeşit...

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The pictures in this collection show a very different side of (pre Taliban) Afghanistan that deserves to be seen.

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Güya analizmiş. Kitle iletişim araçlarının yaygınlaşması ile dezenformasyon savaşının daha da önem kazandığı ve zaten kendi olduğu tarafı/ideolojiyi körü körüne savunmaya hevesli binlerce, milyonlarca insanın olduğu şu gerçeklikte, bunun gibi sözüm ona gazeteciler, bu savaşın en etkili savaşçılarındandır. Nitekim kalem, kılıçtan keskindir sözünün hakikati de günümüzde daha iyi anlaşılmaktadır. Bu kadının yazdığı bu yalan, iftira ve çarpıtmalarla dolu yazıya göre; Taliban, Afganistan'a ABD ve BM tarafından gönderilen insani yardım paralarına çöküyormuş. Aynı yazının ortalarında bu parayı kendi şahsi hesaplarına aktardıkları, birkaç satır sonra ise bunu Taliban grubu adına eylemler için "çaldıklarını" , birkaç paragraf daha sonra ise bu yardımları sadece kendilerine destekçi olan, sempatizan olan kimselere dağıttıklarını, en sonunda ise kendilerine yeni katılım olması için kullandıklarını söylüyor. Yani bölüm geçmek için bütün tuşlara basıyor desek daha doğru. Bu kendi içinde bile çelişen sözleri bir kenara bırakırsak, bu eli kitle imha silahından daha beter bir silah tutan kafir itin bilerek ve isteyerek atladığı bir şey var ki o da zaten ABD'nin , Taliban iktidara geldiğinde Afgan Merkez Bankasındaki milyarlarca dolar parayı "yaptırım " ve "teröre finansman olmaması" , "Taliban'ı ehlileştirme" çabası altında dondurmaları ve el koydukları gerçeği. Daha sonra ABD, bu paranın yarısının Taliban'ın eylemlerinden etkilenen Amerikalı ailelere kalan yarısını ise Afgan halkına insani yardım olarak dağıtacağını açıkladı. Yani şuan oraya giden para aslında "masum (!) Amerikalı vergi mükelleflerinin" parası değil, bilakis Afgan halkının parası. Bununla beraber başta da değindiğim gibi yazı kendi içinde bile çelişkiler yumağı halinde. Bu parayı şahsi zimmetlerine mi geçiriyorlar, yoksa Sünni Peştun halka verip, Şii Hazara topluluklarına vermeyerek baskı mı kuruyorlar, eleman kazanmaya mı çalışıyorlar, grubun (hala iktidar olduklarını kabul edemiyorlar) eylemleri için yeni finansman kaynağı olarak mı kuallanacaklar belirsiz. Bunların üzerine senelerdir var olan yalanı söylemeye devam ediyor rezil ahlaksız; "Taliban uyuşturucudan gelir elde ediyor " . Oysa Taliban uyuşturucu ekimini yasaklayalı aylar oldu ve geçtiğimiz aylar boyunca Avrupa'da bunun üzerine pek çok açıklama yapılıp, makele yazıldı. Bu sözüm ona analizi yazan Yeni Zellenda'lı dezenformasyoncu ile o makaleleri yazan, açıklamalar yapan Avrupa başkanlarını bir araya getirip hanginiz yalan söylüyor diye yüzleştirmek lazım. Hasılı kelam, Malcolm X'in dediği gibi;

"Eğer dikkat etmezseniz medya,mazlumlardan nefret etmenize,ve zalimleri sevmenize sebep olur."

Uyuşturucu ile alakalı hakikatler:

ABD'NİN AFGANİSTAN'IN PARASINI ÇALMASININ HAKİKATİ

HER NE KADAR ABD KARŞITLIĞINDAN DA OLSA RUSYA'DA BU KONU HAKKINDA AÇIKLAMA YAPMIŞTI;

TOPLU HALDE BAŞKA YERLERDE PAYLAŞMAK İÇİN LİNK;

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Afghanistan adalah sebuah negara yang terletak di Asia Selatan dan Asia Tengah, diapit oleh negara-negara seperti Pakistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, dan Tajikistan, serta berbatasan kecil dengan Tiongkok. Afghanistan dikenal dengan sejarah yang panjang dan kompleks, serta lanskap alam yang dramatis, terdiri dari pegunungan yang curam, padang pasir, dan lembah-lembah subur.

Fakta Penting tentang Afghanistan:

Ibu Kota dan Kota Besar: Kabul adalah ibu kota Afghanistan dan juga kota terbesar di negara ini.

Bahasa Resmi: Bahasa resmi di Afghanistan adalah Pashto dan Dari (dialek bahasa Persia).

Populasi: Afghanistan memiliki populasi sekitar 39-40 juta jiwa.

Agama: Mayoritas penduduk Afghanistan adalah Muslim, dengan sebagian besar menganut Islam Sunni, sementara kelompok minoritas kecil adalah Islam Syiah.

Pemerintahan: Sejak Agustus 2021, setelah penarikan pasukan Amerika Serikat dan NATO, kelompok Taliban kembali berkuasa, menggantikan pemerintah sebelumnya yang didukung oleh koalisi internasional.

Sejarah Singkat

Afghanistan memiliki sejarah yang panjang sebagai tempat persimpangan budaya dan kekaisaran. Berikut beberapa poin sejarah penting:

Jalur Sutra: Afghanistan adalah bagian dari Jalur Sutra kuno, yang menghubungkan Timur dan Barat melalui perdagangan.

Invasi dan Penaklukan: Afghanistan telah mengalami banyak invasi, termasuk oleh Aleksander Agung, Mongol, dan Kekaisaran Inggris.

Perang Soviet-Afghanistan (1979-1989): Uni Soviet menginvasi Afghanistan untuk mendukung rezim komunis, yang memicu perang panjang yang melibatkan kelompok-kelompok perlawanan lokal (mujahedin) yang didukung oleh AS.

Era Taliban (1996-2001): Taliban berkuasa di Afghanistan dari tahun 1996 hingga digulingkan oleh koalisi pimpinan AS pada tahun 2001 setelah serangan 9/11.

Perang Afghanistan (2001-2021): Setelah jatuhnya Taliban, Amerika Serikat dan sekutunya mendukung pemerintah baru Afghanistan, namun konflik terus berlanjut hingga Taliban kembali menguasai negara pada Agustus 2021.

Geografi

Afghanistan memiliki lanskap yang didominasi oleh pegunungan Hindu Kush, yang membagi negara ini menjadi beberapa wilayah yang sulit dijangkau. Di selatan terdapat padang pasir, sementara di utara adalah dataran yang lebih subur.

Ekonomi

Afghanistan adalah salah satu negara termiskin di dunia, dengan ekonomi yang sangat bergantung pada pertanian, terutama opium, dan bantuan internasional. Infrastruktur dasar seperti jalan, listrik, dan sistem kesehatan sangat terbatas. Negara ini juga kaya akan sumber daya alam seperti tembaga, emas, dan mineral langka, namun kekacauan politik dan keamanan membuat eksploitasi sumber daya tersebut sulit.

Budaya

Afghanistan memiliki warisan budaya yang kaya dan beragam, dengan berbagai etnis dan kelompok budaya seperti Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, dan Uzbek. Musik, puisi, seni ukir kayu, serta karpet tradisional adalah bagian dari budaya Afghanistan. Meskipun dilanda konflik, budaya lokal terus bertahan dalam kehidupan sehari-hari.

Afghanistan juga menghadapi tantangan besar dalam hal hak asasi manusia, terutama hak-hak perempuan, yang seringkali dibatasi di bawah pemerintahan Taliban.

Situasi Terkini

Sejak Taliban mengambil alih kekuasaan pada 2021, situasi di Afghanistan masih sangat dinamis. Pemerintah Taliban berusaha untuk mendapatkan pengakuan internasional, meskipun terdapat banyak kekhawatiran tentang hak-hak perempuan, kebebasan sipil, dan keamanan di negara tersebut. Banyak negara menghentikan bantuan mereka, dan Afghanistan kini menghadapi krisis kemanu

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siaan yang serius.

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4) Afganistan (CD)

1. Basmachi movement [Ruch Basmachi]. Ruch Basmachi był grupą rebeliantów w Imperium Rosyjskim, Rosyjskiej Federacyjnej Socjalistycznej Republice Radzieckiej i Królestwie Afganistanu. Istniał we współpracy z Saqqawistami podczas wojny domowej w Afganistanie (1916–1934)

2. Saqqawists [Sakkawiści]. Saqqawiści byli zbrojnym islamskim ruchem konserwatywnym działającym w Afganistanie w latach 1924–1931. Próbowali utworzyć Emirat Afganistanu (1929) (1924–1931)

3. Kingdom of Afghanistan [Królestwo Afganistanu]. Po utworzeniu przez Saqqawistów, Emiratu Afganistanu (1929), Ali Ahmad Khan rozpoczął rebelię i obalił emirat. W ten sposób powstało Królestwo Afganistanu (1929)

4. Republic of Afghanistan [Republika Afganistanu]. W 1973 roku w Królestwie Afganistanu doszło do zamachu stanu, w wyniku którego obalono króla i ustanowiono republikę (1973–1974)

5. People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan [Ludowo-Demokratyczna Partia Afganistanu]. W 1978 roku w Republice Afganistanu wybuchła rewolucja komunistyczna, której przewodził Ludowo-Demokratyczny Front Afganistanu. Rewolucja doprowadziła do powstania Demokratycznej Republiki Afganistanu (1965–1992)

6. Hazaras [Hazarowie]. Flaga z napisem „Bóg jest wielki” (الله أكبر) na zielonym tle (1979)

7. Afghanistan Liberation Organization [Organizacja Wyzwolenia Afganistanu]. Frakcje maoistowskie w wojnie radziecko-afgańskiej pod auspicjami Organizacji Wyzwolenia Afganistanu (ALO) używały flagi ALO (1973–obecnie)

8. Islamic Unity of Afghanistan Mujahideen [Islamska Jedność Afganistanu Mudżahedini]. Flaga dżihadystów była używana przez wiele frakcji Islamskiej Jedności Mudżahedinów Afganistanu i do dziś jest używana przez Al-Kaidę (1979–1992)

9. Tehran Eight [Teherańska Ósemka]. Teherańska Ósemka była wspieraną przez Iran frakcją szyicką w wojnie radziecko-afgańskiej. Flaga Hezbollahu była używana przez kilka frakcji (1987–1989)

10. Afghan mujahideen [Afgańscy mudżahedini]. Po wycofaniu się wojsk radzieckich z Afganistanu wybuchła wojna domowa w Afganistanie (1989–1992), podczas której afgańscy mudżahedini kontynuowali walkę z Republiką Afganistanu. Jest to ta sama flaga dżihadystów, której używa Islamska Jedność Afganistanu Mudżahedinów i Al-Kaida (1989–1992)

11. Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin. Po upadku rządów PDPA w Afganistanie, wojna domowa trwała nadal, a niektóre grupy islamistyczne odłączyły się i kontynuowały walkę z Państwem Islamskim Afganistanu, utworzonym przez głównych afgańskich mudżahedinów (1975–obecnie)

12. Al-Qaeda [Al-Kaida]. Po upadku Republiki Afganistanu, Osama bin Laden odłączył się od afgańskich mudżahedinów i założył nową grupę zwaną Al-Kaidą (1988–obecnie)

13. Hezbe Wahdat. Hezbe Wahdat oddzieliło się od afgańskich mudżahedinów jako następca Teherańskiej Ósemki (1989–obecnie)

14. National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan [Narodowy Ruch Islamski Afganistanu]. Narodowy Ruch Islamski Afganistanu oddzielił się od afgańskich mudżahedinów, aby chronić interesy Uzbekistanu i Turkmenistanu (1992–obecnie)

15. Taliban [Talibowie]. Talibowie zostali stworzeni w 1994 r. i początkowo używali zwykłej białej flagi. Do 1996 r. przejęli niemal całkowitą kontrolę nad krajem (1994–1997)

16. Turkistan Islamic Party [Turkiestańska Partia Islamska]. Pierwotnie była to ujgurska islamska organizacja ekstremistyczna z siedzibą w zachodnich Chinach. W 1998 roku siedziba grupy została przeniesiona do Kabulu w kontrolowanym przez talibów Afganistanie, gdzie członkowie grupy walczyli z Sojuszem Północnym (1988–obecnie)

17. Northern Alliance [Sojusz Północny]. Po utworzeniu przez talibów, Islamskiego Emiratu Afganistanu w 1996 r. siły lojalne wobec tymczasowego Islamskiego Państwa Afganistanu uciekły na dalekie północne tereny Afganistanu i połączyły się, tworząc Sojusz Północny (1996–2001)

18. Taliban [Talibowie]. Podczas wojny domowej w Afganistanie (1996–2001) rząd Talibów (Islamskiego Emiratu Afganistanu) nie był uznawany na arenie międzynarodowej. Z tego powodu niektórzy uważali go za rebelię (1997–obecnie)

19. Taliban [Talibowie]. Wariant flagi używany przez Talibów w czasie ich rządów w Afganistanie (1997–2001)

20. Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan [Islamski Ruch Uzbekistanu]. Uzbecka ekstremistyczna organizacja islamska, której talibowie pozwolili działać i okupować tereny w Afganistanie (1998–2015)

21. Turkistan Islamic Party [Turkiestańska Partia Islamska]. Partia nadal utrzymywała swoją obecność w Afganistanie po inwazji Stanów Zjednoczonych na ten kraj, sprzymierzając się z Talibami (1988–obecnie)

22. Al-Qaeda [Al-Kaida]. Al-Kaida, pod przywództwem Osamy bin Ladena, była odpowiedzialna za ataki z 11 września. Wykorzystali Islamski Emirat Afganistanu jako bazę do ukrycia się podczas ataków. Z tego powodu Stany Zjednoczone dokonały inwazji na Afganistan i obaliły Talibów i Al-Kaidę. Al-Kaida, będąc sojusznikiem Talibów, nadal wspierała ich powstanie (1988–obecnie)

23. Taliban [Talibowie]. Po atakach z 11 września, Stany Zjednoczone dokonały inwazji na Afganistan i obaliły Islamski Emirat Afganistanu. Sojusz Północny objął władzę nad nową Islamską Republiką Afganistanu. Talibowie kontynuowali powstanie w kraju do 15 sierpnia 2021 r. (1997–obecnie)

24. Mullah Dadullah Front [Front Mullaha Dadullaha]. Odłam talibów, który w 2012 r. zaczął przyznawać się do odpowiedzialności za zamachy bombowe i zabójstwa (2012–obecnie)

25. Fidai Mahaz. Odłam talibów pod przywództwem Mullaha Najibullaha (2013–obecnie)

26. High Council of Afghanistan Islamic Emirate [Wysoka Rada Islamskiego Emiratu Afganistanu]. Odłam talibów pod przywództwem Muhammada Rasula (2015–2021)

27. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan Province [Państwo Islamskie Iraku i Lewantu – Prowincja Chorasan]. Począwszy od 2015 r. grupa terrorystyczna znana jako Państwo Islamskie Iraku i Lewantu założyła swoją „prowincję Chorasan” w Afganistanie. Rozpoczęła powstanie przeciwko talibom i Islamskiej Republice Afganistanu, rozpoczynając konflikt talibów z ISIL w Afganistanie jako część większej wojny (2015–obecnie)

28. Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (splinter faction) [Ruch Islamski Uzbekistanu (frakcja odłamowa)]. Przywódca IMU Usman Ghazi we wrześniu 2014 r. zadeklarował poparcie grupy dla Państwa Islamskiego w Iraku i Lewancie (ISIL), jednak w czerwcu 2016 r. ujawniła się nowa frakcja IMU, potępiając ISIL i przysięgając wierność talibom i Al-Kaidzie (2016–obecnie)

29. Islamic State – Khorasan Province [Państwo Islamskie – Prowincja Chorasan]. Podczas konfliktu w Pandższirze, konflikt Państwa Islamskiego z Talibami wznowił się, a w dniach 26 sierpnia, 6 września, 8 września i 18 września 2021 r. doszło do kilku ataków (2015–obecnie)

30. Panjshir resistance [Ruch Opóru w Pandższir]. Po zdobyciu Kabulu przez talibów resztki Afgańskiej Armii Narodowej i Islamskiej Republiki Afganistanu uciekły do ​​prowincji Pandższir, aby utworzyć tam ruch oporu i kontynuować walkę z odrodzonym Islamskim Emiratem Afganistanu (2021–obecnie)

31. Panjshir resistance [Ruch Opóru w Pandższir]. Flaga Państwa Islamskiego w Afganistanie powiewająca na maszcie ruchu oporu Pandższir (2021–obecnie)

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Exclusive access inside the Taliban's palace | Witness Documentary Rare behind-the-scenes access to the Taliban spokesman as local Afghans confront him about the failed economy and broken promises of women’s and minority rights. With unprecedented access from Kandahar to Kabul, the Taliban’s main spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid opens the doors to the presidential palace. He takes us to the centre of the Taliban’s transition from rebel fighters to the nation’s leaders. Charged with orders from the Taliban’s reclusive supreme leader, Mullah Haibatullah Akhunzada, Mujahid faces the stresses that come with governing a divided and traumatised country of 40 million people. In Afghanistan, human rights are under attack and the economy is crumbling. Powerful businessmen, bold Hazara leaders and a fearless woman activist confront Mujahid about the Taliban’s many unfulfilled promises. He knows the stakes are high for an administration which is not formally recognised by the rest of the world. Taliban Palace is a documentary film by Michael Healy and Najibullah Quraishi. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://ift.tt/WfZTgVX Check our website: https://ift.tt/tUjvLzf Check out our Instagram page: https://ift.tt/0GnISKz Download AJE Mobile App: https://ift.tt/Btv56Mh #Taliban #Documentary #Afghanistan @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP6SnlLlMU8

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BOOK REVIEW: THE KITE RUNNER

Book Review: The Kite Runner The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Genre: Realistic Fiction Number of Pages: 371 Rating - 5 - Amazing Reviewed by: NS

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hossini is a novel which takes place in the mid 1970’s up until the early 2000’s. The book starts out with two boys, Amir and Hassan, who live in Afghanistan. At the start of the book, readers are introduced to these two characters as two very different people. Amir and Hassan are introduced as close friends, and they were born in the same house. Amir is of Pashtun descent, whereas Hassan is of Hazara descent. Both characters go through their own challenges while growing up, and soon the Taliban starts to enter the country near the middle of the book. The Kite Runner is filled with emotions as readers start to become aware of how the world treats people, and The Kite Runner is an emotionally impactful book.

Overall, I believe that this book was powerful and emotionally compelling. The Kite Runner offers more of a sense of literary merit and I believe that the Kite Runner brings a sense of reality, and it combines historical aspects of life with today’s world. Amir finds himself not knowing what he wants to do, as he tries to win his father’s attention and love. Amir is willing to go the depths to get this adoration, even if it means sacrificing his best friend’s dignity. I believe that the Kite Runner would be best described as a redemption story for the main character Amir. Readers will see some of the connections built, and challenges faced within the characters of this story.

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i want to return to this because unfortunately it has been reblogged by hundreds and seen by even more, meaning it is too late to delete it and hope it does not spread. i posted this before doing deeper digging and discovering that the mass rape allegations were exactly that – mere allegations, fake stories invented by the zionist occupation to justify the genocide ongoing in gaza for the last 142 days.

my original post here contains violent and deadly misinformation about hamas, misinformation that i let myself believe due to my own trauma as a hazara born under taliban control. they (the taliban) call themselves resistance and freedom fighters when they are nothing but terrorists, so i have had a knee-jerk reaction to similar militants throughout the middle east; i have paid close attention to hamas these past four months, however, and can easily see that they truly are the freedom fighters they claim to be. they are good people fighting for the lives of their families, the rightful return of their land.

i want to sincerely apologise for my participation in the spread of anti-palestinian propaganda. the only mass rapes occurring in palestine are against palestinian (and israeli women) by israelis.

i know i have not posted much here lately as most of my activism is centred around instagram and this is a mistake of mine that i realised back in october.

glory to the resistance, in all its shapes and forms and names. glory to the martyrs. freedom to palestine, from the river to the sea. freedom from all occupations and violence, from afghanistan to palestine to sudan.

i was born in taliban-controlled afghanistan and spent the majority of my childhood under the subsequent american occupation. my village was controlled by terrorists and warlords and patrolled by american soldiers who pretended they were 'peacekeepers' but, for the most part, were only interested in abusing local afghans and raping women and girls. i've both witnessed and experienced the sexual violence of my country's islamic fundamentalist factions as well as american occupying forces.

what i've seen both israel and hamas do to women in palestine and the occupied territories is eerily similar. i know people love to shout resistance by any means necessary! and similar slogans, but rape is not about 'resistance', it's about men exerting power and control over women. making excuses for it just goes to show how ready and willing 'leftists' are to throw women to the wolves as soon as they see an opportunity.

and if you think the men of hamas go home after raping their 'conquests of war' to treat palestinian women like saints, you haven't been paying attention to male violence throughout human history at all. the men who use war as an excuse to rape enemy women are going home to rape, beat and abuse their wives and daughters just the same.

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THE TALIBAN

1994                      TALIBAN -   (Taleban) is an Islamic political movement in Afghanistan, it ruled from 1996 to 2001 – it only gained recognition from 3 states: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Mohammed Omar was the founder of the Taliban until his death in 2013. Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was his replacement. While in power, it informed Sharia Law (Islamic Law), they treated women with much brutality. Pakistan has been accused of continuing to support the Taliban; Pakistan states it dropped support for the Taliban after the 11 September attacks. Al-Qaeda also supported the Taliban. Saudi Arabia provided the Taliban with financial support. The Taliban and their allies committed massacres against Afghan civilians, denied food supplies to civilians, and destroyed thousands of homes. Hundreds of thousands of people were forced to flee. After the 11 September attacks, the Taliban were overthrown by the American invasion of Afghanistan. The Taliban has been using terrorism to further their ideological and political goals.

                The Taliban movement's origins go back to the Pakistan-trained mujahideen in North Pakistan, during the Soviet war in Afghanistan. When Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq became President of Pakistan he feared that the Soviets would invade, so he sent Akhtar Abdur Rahman to Saudi Arabia to gain support for the Afghan resistance against forces. The US and Saudia Arabia joined with Afghanistan to stop Soviet occupation forces and helped them with funds. Zia-ul-Haq aligned with Pakistan’s Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam and later picked General Akhtar Abdur Rahman to lead the insurgency against the Soviet Union inside Afghanistan. 90,000 Afghans were trained by ISI during the 80s. The USA and UK gave aid of about 20 billion dollars in the 80s to Pakistan to train Taliban personnel and also provided them with arms and ammunition. After the fall of the Soviet regime of Mohammad Najibullah in 1992, several Afghan political parties agreed on peace. Saudi Arabia and Iran supported the Afghan militia's hostility towards each other. Iran assisted the Shia Hazara Hezb-I Wahdat forces of Abdul Ali Mazari, as Iran attempted to maximize Wahdat’s military power and influence. Saudi Arabia supported the Wahhabite Abdul Rasul Sayyaf and his Ittihad-I Islami faction. The conflict between the 2 soon escalated. These forces saw an opportunity to press their own political agendas. The Taliban emerged in south Afghanistan in Kandahar in 1994. Due to the sudden civil war, the government, and the police did not have time to form. Crimes were committed by criminals and individuals. The Red Cross (ICRC) collapsed within days.

                The Taliban, while trying to control northern and western Afghanistan, committed systematic massacres against civilians. There were 15 massacres between 1996 and 2001. Arab and Pakistani support troops were involved in these killings. Bin Laden’s 005 Brigade was responsible for the mass-killings of Afghan civilians. Arab fighters went around with long knives and slit people’s throats and skinned people. Taliban’s former ambassador to Pakistan, Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, in 2001 said that the cruel behaviour by the Taliban had been “necessary”. The Taliban denied emergency food to 160,000 hungry and starving people due to political and military reasons. In 1998, the Taliban attacked Mazar-I Sharif. Out of 1500 defenders, only 100 survived. The Taliban gained controland started to kill people randomly. They started shooting people in the street, and began to target Hazaras. They raped women, and they put thousands of people in containers and locked them in and left them to suffocate to death. This left 5,000 to 6,000 dead. 10 Iranian diplomats and one journalist were also killed. They burned orchards, crops and destroyed irrigation systems, and forced more than 100,000 people from their homes with hundreds of men, women and children still unaccounted for.  The Taliban killed civilians. Istalif, was home to 45,000 people – the Taliban gave all of these people just 24 hours' notice to leave. In 1999, Bamian was taken, people – men, women, and children were all executed. There was another massacre in the town of Yakalang in 2001. 300 people were murdered. In 1999, the Taliban forced thousands of people from the Shomali Plains and other regions and burned their homes, farmland, and gardens.

                Taliban and al-Qaeda ran human trafficking, abducting women and selling them into sex slavery in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Taliban argued that the strict restrictions they placed on women were to protect them. The behavior of the Taliban made a mockery of that claim. There were women who committed suicide over slavery. In 1999 in Shomali Plains, more than 600 women were kidnapped, the women were forced into trucks and buses. The women were penned up inside a camp in the desert. The more attractive women were selected and taken away. They were sold into brothels or to private household to be kept as slaves.  Not all involved with the Taliban were for human trafficking, many in the Taliban were opposed to it. One Taliban commander and his men freed women who were abducted.

                The Taliban forced women into house arrest, and if they left their homes they were punished physically. The Taliban stopped women from being educated, and girls were not permitted to go to school or college. If a woman went shopping she had to be accompanied by a male relative and had to wear the burqa. If any woman disobeyed she was publicly beaten into submission. Any woman who was in public with someone who was not a relative was accused of adultery – which involved public flogging in the stadium – 100 lashes. The religious police carried out abuse on women. Women could not work, unless it was in the medical sector, because male medical personnel were not allowed to treat women and girls. The Taliban also closed down primary schools, not only female schools but male schools as well, due to teachers being female. In 1998, religious police forced all women off the streets of Kabul and issued all homes to blacken their windows, if women lived inside so women could not be seen from the outside.

                The Taliban were responsible for 76% of civilian casualties in Afghanistan in 2009 and 80% in 2011. In 2008, the Taliban increased its use of suicide bombers and targeted unarmed civilians and aid workers. Female suicide bombers have become increasingly common. Schools and homes were booby-trapped, snipers shelter in houses deliberately filled with women and children. The Taliban targeted health officials that work to immunize children against polio due to fears of the vaccine. Taliban banned the vaccine and the Taliban assassinated 4 female UN polio-worker in Pakistan because they accused them of being spies.

                The Taliban has a strict and anti-modern ideology, they also go by Sharia Law. They are a militant Islam group and extremist jihadists of Osama bin Laden. They are inspired by the mystical Sufis, traditionalists, and radical Islamicists inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan). Under the Taliban, Islam Law – Sharia Law prohibited pork, many different technologies, alcohol, and forms of art including paintings and photos, and was against women playing sport. Men were forbidden to shave their beards and required to wear a head covering.

                The Bamyan Buddhas at Bamyan were 2 6th-century monumental statues of standing buddhas carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan. In 2001, The Taliban destroyed them with dynamite. The Taliban believed that worshiping anything outside of Islam was unacceptable and that the statues had to be destroyed.

90s 1990s THE TIME MACHINE

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For many Afghans, the country’s armed conflict has never ended.

The armed group Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP) attracted worldwide attention in March when it attacked the Crocus City Hall in Moscow, killing at least 143 people and injuring many others. Since emerging in Afghanistan in 2015, the group has carried out a bloody campaign mostly targeting Shia-Hazara mosques and schools and other facilities in predominantly Hazara neighborhoods.

In the most recent attack, on April 29, an armed member of the group opened fire on worshippers at a Shia-Hazara mosque in western Herat province, killing six, including a child. On April 20, a magnetic bomb attached to a bus whose passengers were primarily Hazara exploded, killing one and injuring 10. On January 6, a similar attack on a bus in Dasht-e Barchi, a predominantly Hazara neighborhood of Kabul, killed five people, including at least one child, and injured 14. Dasht-e Barchi has been the site of numerous ISKP attacks. When ISKP claimed responsibility for the January 6 attack, they said it was part of their “kill them wherever you find them” campaign against “infidels.”

Between 2015 and mid-2021, ISKP attacks killed and injured more than 2,000 civilians primarily in Kabul, Jalalabad, and Kandahar. Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan in August 2021, these attacks have continued – killing and injuring over 700.

The Taliban have long battled the ISKP, which have also targeted Taliban personnel. A suicide bombing outside a Kandahar bank on March 21 killed at least 21 people and injured 50, many of them Taliban ministry employees who had lined up to collect their salaries.

Attacks on Hazara and other religious minorities and targeted attacks on civilians violate international humanitarian law, which still applies in Afghanistan. Deliberate attacks on civilians are war crimes. Beyond the immediate loss of life, such attacks incur lasting damage to physical and mental health, cause long-term economic hardship, and result in new barriers to education and public life. (Human Rights Watch)

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