Samar, a former minister of women's affairs and the first chair of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, left Kabul in July 2021 for the United States on her first trip after the COVID-19 pandemic, never expecting Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to flee the country and the Taliban to take power for the second time soon after on Aug. 15.
"And I said, I should be apologizing because I started schools for the people?" said Samar, a member of Afghanistan's long persecuted Hazara minority.
Samar remembered the Taliban's previous rule in the late 1990s, when they largely confined women to their homes, banned television and music, and held public executions. A U.S.-led invasion drove the Taliban from power months after the 9/11 attacks in 2001, which al-Qaida orchestrated from Afghanistan while being sheltered by the Taliban.
Samar said the Afghan government and leadership, especially Ghani, were mainly responsible for the Taliban sweeping into Kabul and taking power. But she also put blame on Afghans "because we were very divided." "And I kept saying, human rights is not Western values. As a human being, everyone needs to have a shelter... access to education and health services, to security," she said.
She also urged the international community to continue humanitarian programs which are critical to save lives, but said they should focus on food-for-work or cash-for-work to end peoples' total dependency and give them "self-confidence and dignity."
After 20 years of pouring international blood and treasure into Afghanistan...the Afghan people will need to look to themselves for their own Solutions
Change comes from within. Afghanistan is about two centuries behind.
Taliban +shariah law = dark ages Mohammedan dump
How about Canadian heartbroken after years of JT rule of oppression? Do some real journalism instead of gas lighting and virtue signalling.
This Afghan woman is a piece of 💩 .
Shut up and go back to grow opium .
All thanks to Biden.....
All talk and no action.
Left behind by radical left wing govts
Taliban + shariah law = dark ages Mohammedan dump
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