Women in Afghanistan - Report by Amnesty Int.

[Killarney]

Bush keeps pushing the fact that women can vote in Afghanistan as evidence that he is some big savior of women and women's rights internationally. Um, not so much.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041208/wl_afp/rights_amnesty_women_041208000947
Khan, the head of Amnesty International, told AFP in an interview that "it's quite interesting to see that women rights have been used as justification for military intervention, in the cases of both Iraq and Afghanistan."

But, she added, "on the ground the situation changes very little in favor of women ... In the case of Afghanistan we have seen no improvement.

"Warlords are occupying parts of the territory and see women as commodities for trading, to settle land dispute. Abductions and forced marriages are about as bad, if not worse, than at any time in Afghan history.

"Warlords are not being pulled out, they're not being prosecuted, they're not being investigated for the crimes that are openly committing."

[radwriter0555]

1. Not to mention the reinstatement of pederasty, a hobby of the Northern

Alliance.

Hey, the Northern Alliance are the good guys, remember; they hold their beheadings OUTSIDE the soccer stadiums.

And thank goodness that heroin trade is back on track to further stabilize the rural Afghani population!!!!!

[Telly Savalas]

2. Indeed. Freedom is on the march.

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