Shawwal 14, 1430 A.H, October 04, 2009

In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate

Last week, American forces in Helmand province killed 9 civilians by firing a missile late at night. Before that, in the first week of last September, American jets killed 140 poor villagers in Kunduz province when they were siphoning oil from tankers.

The Kabul hireling army had ambiguously left the tankers after a brief armed clash with Mujahideen. All victims killed in the air raid in what seemed to be a phosphorus attack, included school students and miserable villagers.

Similarly, civilians have fallen prey to American and NATO blind bombardments in Aziz Abad, Hirat province, Dehrawood district, Uruzgan province, Shinwar district, Nangarhar province. Thousands of miserable and defenseless Afghans have been killed in the American so-called war on terror.

The whole Afghan nation now lives in a state of constant fear and terror because they do not know when they will be bombed by American jets and detained by the invading troops. The realities of today’s Afghanistan are that under the farce of democracy and war on terror, they kill, detain and torture the Afghans. No one can ask them why they commit these crimes. Nor one can bring them to justice for what they have done to innocent people.

Our people have seen atrocities by foreign invaders from the time of Alexander down to Chengis khan, Tamerlane, the Red Army but the American atrocities are worst in terms of brutality and barbarism. They have turned our ceremonies of festivities into mourning by blindly bombing them; they have made our schools and seminaries scene of blood and corpse by firing missiles at them ostensibly by mistakes or accusing them of being terrorists training centers.

It is pity that the Human Rights Watch, the Amnesty International, the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations are tight lipped over what are happening in Afghanistan.

When we try to inform the public of the world about the bloodshed, the violence, the genocide and the racial cleansing unleashed by Pentagon and its allies in Afghanistan, they suffocate our voice by blocking our websites and not publishing our news and statements.

Is this democracy? Is this justice the world wants? The world must take notice that basic human rights of liberty of speech and other human values are being violated by American troops with impunity under the notorious war on terror.

The war in Afghanistan is not between democracy and terror as they call it but it is between freedom and tyranny, independence and colonialism, human values and dictatorship. However, politics and biased media have overshadowed our legitimate cause.


Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan