Sahar Samet Speech:
I am Sahar Samet, one of the founders of Cooperation and Solidarity Network of Women of Afghanistan and Iran (CSNWAI).
We are on the verge of the one year anniversary of the fall
of the former government of Afghanistan led by Ashraf Ghani and the rise of one
of the most extreme Islamic groups and terrorists called the Taliban.
Once again, the fate of Afghanistan, especially the young
generation, was pushed towards darkness. Once again, because of superpower's
political games, the educated class, especially women, was targeted by the
Taliban. But it is these women who, with their street protests, with their
struggles in society, have prevented the Taliban and their government from
gaining political legitimacy in the world.
As a reporter and someone who has close online connections
with these women, I am aware of many things.
Events that get less media attention.
Such as the Taliban's assault and rape of female protesters
who are in their detention centers. The same Taliban who consider the presence
of women in the society against the Islamic Sharia and have an excuse to
exclude women from the society, according to the Sharia law and the Taliban,
they subject women protestors on the street in their detention centers to
sexual violence and alcohol. They consume and also make a number of other women
to dance for them.
The same Taliban who closed schools to girls with their
arrival, but their own children are studying outside of Afghanistan in the best
schools with very good facilities and with a different identity.
So far, we have seen the publication of photos of a number
of people who died of starvation, a man who sold his wife due to poverty, and
some are selling their body parts such as their kidneys to survive.
Explosions and suicides are still going on and people are
still mourning their loved ones.
Once again, ethnic minorities and others are under pressure.
Due to the closure of transportation routes, medical
services and access to medicine have also become difficult.
On the other hand, educated and specialized people have left
or are leaving the country, and this causes the social order to systematically
disintegrate.
According to UNICEF, more than 10 million children need
serious and urgent help in 2022 in Afghanistan.
Now the Pakistani authorities are publicly deciding the
political future of the Afghan people and on the other hand Afghanistan is
being divided by Pakistan.
The world closed its doors to the Afghan people, no
financial aid, and no political support for the Afghan people, and no
acceptance of immigrants.
The war in Ukraine and the displacement and killing of
thousands of innocent people there caused the focus of politicians to go in
that direction to compete with Russia, and Afghanistan was forgotten.
Now the hope of the people of Afghanistan lies in these
protests so that the political fate of that country and the people of that land
may be better. Be saved
Thank you to each and every one of you who participated in
supporting the people of Afghanistan.
