Taliban Warlords Oppress Afghan Women

[boann]

Report: Post-Taliban Warlords Oppress Afghan Women
Tue Dec 17, 6:51 AM ET


By Evelyn Leopold

Many Afghan women are still subject to the same abuse as under the ousted Taliban and in some regions, such as the west of the country, face increasing harassment, a human rights group said on Tuesday.


Many people outside the country believe that Afghan women and girls have had their rights restored," when the Taliban was removed from power a year ago, said Zama Coursen-Neff, co-author of the report, "We Want to Live as Humans."

Khan, the governor of Herat, who has received considerable U.S. financial and military assistance, was named as the most flagrant abuser, inventing a series of draconian measures.

Among them is a religious police and a "youth police" to haul women and girls to hospitals for gynecological examinations for the purpose of "chastity checks."



what century is it ?

and of course the US is giving aid to this Khan.
I'm so fed up with the flapping of government lips
and the nothing that comes out.

[Giancarlo]

and of course the US is giving aid to this Khan.

Err. Wrong. The US is helping the transitional central government to build up a military of 70,000 to go after warlords. It all takes time. But of course to take out these warlords you wanna go all in force with 200,000 troops or something? Heh... ask the Russians how that turns out.

[Kropotkin]

Your thread title kind of messed it all up imnsho. obviously one shouldn't be suprised about this (I'm talking about the article now...).

[Bereta_Eder]

Re: Taliban Warlords Oppress Afghan Women

Originally posted by boann

Among them is a religious police and a "youth police" to haul women and girls to hospitals for gynecological examinations for the purpose of "chastity checks."

This unfortunately happens to your ally Turkey too. Now.

[boann]

Originally posted by Fez


Err. Wrong. The US is helping the transitional central government to build up a military of 70,000 to go after warlords. It all takes time. But of course to take out these warlords you wanna go all in force with 200,000 troops or something? Heh... ask the Russians how that turns out.

ERRRR wrong....EERRRR i don't think so...
this is a direct quote from the article.

"Khan, the governor of Herat, who has received considerable U.S. financial and military assistance, was named as the most flagrant abuser, inventing a series of draconian measures. "

[DinoDoc]

Re: Re: Taliban Warlords Oppress Afghan Women

Originally posted by paiktis22
This unfortunately happens to your ally Turkey too. Now.

Spare us Greek propaganda.

[Bereta_Eder]

Re: Re: Re: Taliban Warlords Oppress Afghan Women

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Spare us Greek propaganda.

In a report released today, the Human Rights Watch Women's Rights
Project charges the Turkish government with the forcible
imposition of virginity control examinations on women in police
custody. The report, "A Matter of Power: State Control of Women's
Virginity in Turkey," finds that police force female political
detainees and common criminal suspects to undergo gynecological
examinations for the purpose of determining the status of theirhymens.

http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/turkvir.htm

[Saint Marcus]

I told you a year ago that Khan was bad news. Why does nobody listen to me?

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Saint Marcus
Why does nobody listen to me?

Why buck a trend?

[Saint Marcus]

I was right though, wasn't I. If Bush had listened to me, this would never have happened!

[Bereta_Eder]

Bush doesn't care about that.

[Giancarlo]

Wow, never seen so much leftist propaganda go around before.

[Arrian]

Unsurprising, really. I wish I could say I was shocked, but I'm not. Taleban or no Taleban, the Afghans have some very different views on women's role in society than we do. I think their view is stupid, but what do we do? Make aid conditional on them accepting women's lib? We would be accused of messing with their culture: Imperialist America ramming its view down other people's throats again.

So, while I'm appalled at how they choose to treat their women, I'm not sure we can do much about it without sacrificing the overall mission in Afghanistan (to stabilize it somehow and prevent it from becoming a haven for terrorists again).

-Arrian

[Shi Huangdi]

We fund this guy and we should continue funding this guy because no matter how rotten he may be, he is not pro Al Qaeda. Our main interest in Afghanistan is making sure terrorists can't use it as a base.

[Saint Marcus]

Fez: so you deny it happends? do you deny this is going on? do you deny the west doesn't do anything?