Revolutionary Association of the Women Of Afghanistan Opinion on Sept 11

"The people of Afghanistan have nothing to do with Osama and his accomplices"

Thus begins the RAWA statement that was posted on the Web just days after the tragic terrorist attacks on the United States of America.* RAWA is the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, and the organisation has been working for over 20 years to attain social justice in Afghanistan, especially but not only, for its womenfolk.

Their September 14 statement denounces with shock and horror, the recent terrorist attacks and expresses too, RAWA's "solidarity and deep sorrow with the people of the US." It emphasizes, the vast difference between the citizens of Afghanistan and the terrorist regimes that devastate the country and oppress the people.

This message is but one of some half dozen statements that have been posted on the Web by RAWA since November last year. A November 13, 2000 statement calls for the world's democracies to condemn all of the warring factions that claim to represent the Afghan people, but who at the same time have committed heinous crimes against all these people, and particularly against the Afghan women.

On December 10, 2000 (International Human Rights Day) RAWA posted an 8 point statement that denounced by name, a number of well-known terrorists as well as the unscrupulous world powers that arm them and shield them from justice. It denounces as criminals, the terrorist gangs that have oppressed the people of Afghanistan for years, and it called for the world to bring them to justice.

The statement on International Women's Day, 2001 tells of the twenty years of tyranny that has seen Afghan women victimized beyond endurance and how UN sanctions have done little to relieve the oppression, and much to make it yet harder to bear.

April 27 and 28 are marked every year as black days for the women of Afghanistan, and the RAWA statement that commemorated these days in 2001, expressed once again their outrage at what is going on in their homeland, and that the outside world has done nothing to ease their plight.

Just two months before the US tragedies, a RAWA message protested the lack of global opposition to the crimes being perpetuated in their country, the violation of hundreds of elderly women, young women and girls, the deprivation of the most basic of human rights of all its women.

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