Neither the Taliban nor the Jehadi fundamentalists,
representation to the real representative of
the Afghan people!

Another bloody year passed which again had nothing but looting, barbarity, killing, destruction, rape, forced immigration and treason by both the Taliban and the Jehadi fundamentalists headed by Rabbani-Masoud band. Though thousands of people, especially ill-fated Afghan women were the first and foremost targets of the fundamentalists' brutalities and crimes against humanity and again the northern part of the country came under one of the most brutal fighting and mass killing, but unfortunately UN never paid the least attention and while somehow shutting its eyes towards the Jehadis' crimes and treacherous attitude towards the battered people in general and shocked women in particular, yet again it left the Afghanistan's chair in the UN to the representative of the Jehadi forces.

UN, instead of giving the Afghanistan seat to Rabbani-Masoud & Co. the murderers of the Afghan people, should persecute all the fundamentalists as war criminals and surrender them to the International Court of Justice to decide their fate even if it's just for the rape of a mother of 70 and the destruction of Kabul. The Jehadis, along with the Taliban, must be regarded as the real responsible of the current human rights tragedy in Afghanistan and must be dealt with as war criminals, rapists, vandals and misogynists and the UN seat for Afghanistan should remain suspended till there is any legal and representative government in Afghanistan.

If world really wants to put an end to the ongoing harsh human rights violations and barbarities at the hands of the Taliban and Jehadi fundamentalists, it, while keeping the Afghan seat in the UN suspended, must take practical, meaningful and firm stand towards the Jehadi and Taliban forces and pave the way for a just, transparent and fair elections in which all those forces and "figures" and countries who have hands in today's catastrophe should be excluded from.

Once more RAWA, while adhering to its repeated request from all democratic forces and other world-known bodies, reiterates that Afghanistan seat in the UN shouldn't be given neither to the Taliban nor to the Jehadis. Let the Afghan people decide whom Afghanistan seat in the UN should be given to.

Down with the Jehadi and Taliban vandals!
Long live freedom and democracy!
Power to the hands of the Afghan people!

Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)

November 13, 2000