“No nation can donate liberation to another nation. These values must be fought for and won by the people themselves. They can only grow and flourish when they are planted by the people in their own soil and watered by there own blood and tears.”
“Dust has been thrown into the eyes of the world by your governments. You have not been told the truth. The situation now is as catastrophic as it was under the Taliban for women. Your governments have replaced the fundamentalist rule of the Taliban with another fundamentalist regime of warlords. (That is) what your soldiers are dying for.”
“There is no difference for ordinary Afghans between the Taliban and the equally fundamentalist warlords. Which groups are labeled ‘terrorist’ or ‘fundamentalist’ depends on how useful they are to the goals of the US. You have two sides who terrorize women, but the anti-American side are ‘terrorists’ and the pro-American side are ‘heroes.’”
~Malalai Joya Member of Afghan Parliament
