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TITLE: Sanction On All Warring Factions |
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ORG: RAWA |
DATE: April 28, 2001 |
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Revolutionary Association of the Women of the Afghanistan (RAWA) on Friday asked the international community to impose sanctions on all Afghan warring factions saying restrictions only on the Taliban could not help the two-decade long conflict resolved. RAWA leader, Saima Karim said this during an emergency press conference, following the district administration prevented them from holding a rally to mark April 27 as black day, the day when the armed forces of the defunct USSR had invaded Afghanistan in 1997. "The same day in 1997, the Red Army attacked our homeland, and the same day in 1992 the radical mujahideen groups forcefully capture the country's power "she said. Both these developments led to massive suffering of the Afghan women. The Soviet forces physically harassed them while radical groups confined them inside the house, denying them the basic human rights, she maintained. She regretted the administration decision not to allow the association holding its proposed rally. "The rally was not against the Pakistan government. It has been evident from experiences in the past that RAWA never troubled the government agencies through holding such activities. The only aim of the rally was to highlight the depleted condition of the Afghan women." The Afghan woman has been denied of her legal rights. And this is what RAWA wanted to communicate to the international community by holding the rally Saima remarked. She said the current policies being followed by the world body not helpful to restore peace inside Afghanistan. -SANA END |