Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 09:17:25 -0400 Subject: Re: rawa statement From: cs <christina.sharpe-AT-tufts.edu> Rawa has a website. http://rawasongs.fancymarketing.net/ Christina Sharpe Asst. Professor of English Tufts University Medford, MA 02155 on 9/18/01 7:22 PM, Mark LeVine at mark.levine-AT-iue.it wrote: > does anyone know how to contact RAWA? are they in the US by any chance? > > cs wrote: > >> Sorry if this is a repost. >> >> Christina >> >> RAWA statement on the terrorist attacks in the US >> >> The people of Afghanistan have nothing to do with Osama and his accomplices >> >> On September 11, 2001 the world was stunned with the horrific terrorist >> attacks on the United States. RAWA stands with the rest of the world in >> expressing our sorrow and condemnation for this barbaric act of violence and >> terror. RAWA had already warned that the United States should not support >> the most treacherous, most criminal, most anti-democracy and anti-women >> Islamic fundamentalist parties because after both the Jehadi and the Taliban >> have committed every possible type of heinous crimes against our people, >> they would feel no shame in committing such crimes against the American >> people whom they consider "infidel". In order to gain and maintain their >> power, these barbaric criminals are ready to turn easily to any criminal >> force. >> >> But unfortunately we must say that it was the government of the United >> States who supported Pakistani dictator Gen. Zia-ul Haq in creating >> thousands of religious schools from which the germs of Taliban emerged. In >> the similar way, as is clear to all, Osama Bin Laden has been the blue-eyed >> boy of CIA. But what is more painful is that American politicians have not >> drawn a lesson from their pro-fundamentalist policies in our country and are >> still supporting this or that fundamentalist band or leader. In our opinion >> any kind of support to the fundamentalist Taliban and Jehadies is actually >> trampling democratic, women's rights and human rights values. >> >> If it is established that the suspects of the terrorist attacks are outside >> the US, our constant claim that fundamentalist terrorists would devour their >> creators, is proved once more. >> >> The US government should consider the root cause of this terrible event, >> which has not been the first and will not be the last one too. The US should >> stop supporting Afghan terrorists and their supporters once and for all. >> >> Now that the Taliban and Osama are the prime suspects by the US officials >> after the criminal attacks, will the US subject Afghanistan to a military >> attack similar to the one in 1998 and kill thousands of innocent Afghans for >> the crimes committed by the Taliban and Osama? Does the US think that >> through such attacks, with thousands of deprived, poor and innocent people >> of Afghanistan as its victims, will be able to wipe out the root-cause of >> terrorism, or will it spread terrorism even to a larger scale? >> >>> From our point of view a vast and indiscriminate military attacks on a >> country that has been facing permanent disasters for more than two decades >> will not be a matter of pride. We don't think such an attack would be the >> expression of the will of the American people. >> >> The US government and people should know that there is a vast difference >> between the poor and devastated people of Afghanistan and the terrorist >> Jehadi and Taliban criminals. >> >> While we once again announce our solidarity and deep sorrow with the people >> of the US, we also believe that attacking Afghanistan and killing its most >> ruined and destitute people will not in any way decrease the grief of the >> American people. We sincerely hope that the great American people could >> DIFFERENTIATE between the people of Afghanistan and a handful of >> fundamentalist terrorists. Our hearts go out to the people of the US. >> >> Down with terrorism! >> >> Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) >> >> September 14, 2001 >> >> Spanish | Italian | Catalan >> >> Some RAWA documents--Home Page >> >> --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > -- > Mark LeVine, Ph.D. > Assistant Professor > Dept. of History > University of California, Irvine > > Contact information, Summer-Fall 2001: > > 32-22 204th Street > Bayside, NY 11361, USA > 718 423 7357 > 718 423 2229 - fax > <mark.levine-AT-iue.it> > > > > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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