From: Barry Stoller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Afghan refugees reluctant to return [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- One News. 15 November 2001. Afghan refugees in no rush to return. Despite the celebrations in many parts of Afghanistan as the ruling Taliban seem to be on the run, Afghan refugees in New Zealand are showing no hurry to return to their homeland. And they don't have happy memories of the last time the Northern Alliance ruled Afghanistan. "There was... atrocity," says refugee Khalil Tajik. "They killed people, they raped people, they stolen (sic) the property of people, they did everything in a really inhumane way." The Northern Alliance and the Taliban are two sides of the same extremist coin for this man, who fled his homeland with his family looking for a better way of life. "It is very hard for me to distinguish between these two parties. They grew up in the mountains, they are just like a wild people." Fellow refugee Ayub Ahmadzai blames the infighting between the various factions inside Afghanistan for allowing the Taliban to come to power in the first place. "So they first started fighting each other in the streets of Kabul for power. And estimatedly (sic) 50,000 people were killed," he says. Ahmadzai wants an electoral democracy before he will return home. Tajik says it is too dangerous at this stage to hope to return soon. "No guarantee of safety," says Tajik. "Not for my children, not for my family." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews with continuing coverage of WWIII _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
