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Times of India. 29 November 2001. Afghan left to resist theocracy. KOLKATA -- Opposing both the Taliban and the Northern Alliance, the Communist Party of Afghanisan has called for an armed resistance against what it called pan-Islamism and theocracy of both Taliban and non-Taliban variety. In a recent statement, a copy of which was made available to this newspaper, the CPA described the Taliban as well as the Al Qaeda as creations of the United States and said that the Northern Alliance was the new stooge of the US. "It is the absolute right and responsibility of the people of Afghanistan to resist the invasion and occupation of the US imperialists and their allies, just as it was to resist the invasion and occupation of the Soviet social-imperialists," the statement says. Meanwhile, the Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan, a banned organisation which shot into prominence after it published shocking live pictures of Taliban atrocities, demanded deployment of a UN peace-keeping force to disarm the warlords of the Northern Alliance. Sahar Saba, spokesperson of the Foreign Affairs Committee of RAWA, who came to Kolkata on Thursday, demanded that the former king, Zahir Shah, be placed in charge of the interim government in Afghanistan. "For us, this is not the ideal option. But since the true secular forces do not yet enjoy support of the majority, this is the only option under the present circumstances," Saba said. "The Northern Alliance should not be allowed to form a government," she insisted. "Northern Alliance is as bad as the barbaric and fundamentalist Taliban," she said. Strongly contradicting media reports that the women had attained liberation after the Northern Alliance captured power in Kabul, the RAWA leader said that the women were still being brutalised in the country and there was no difference between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance in this regard. "Women's rights are still being violated in Afghanistan ever since the fall of Kabul and other important cities in the country to the Northern Alliance, and we are not safe at all," she said. Saba alleged that media was "wrongly projecting" that women's rights had been restored in Afghanistan with the defeat of the Taliban. "Rights to removing burkha off the faces or listening to music does not mean that the women have attained freedom. Most of the Afghan women are still being forced to stay indoors," she said. The RAWA leader came to the city and attended a reception organised by the women's wing of the CPM, Ganatantrik Mahila Samity. She attended the recent conference of CPM's women's wing in Hyderabad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
