[USWC] Fw: Radio Afghanistan - Forward Petition

[Roger Bull]

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Date: Thursday, April 05, 2001 12:19 PM
Subject: Fw: Radio Afghanistan - Forward Petition



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From: Radio Afghanistan <info at radioafghanistan.com>
To: Roger Bull <rbull at nas.com>
Date: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 8:12 PM
Subject: Radio Afghanistan - Forward Petition


Dear Members,

The following is a petition, please signed it and forward it to your
friends.  The treatment of women in Afghanistan is probably one of the
saddest events in Afghan history.  The Afghan  women have suffered
abominably; first in the hands of Masoud-Rabbani band and now under the
Taliban regime.  Both the Masoud-Rabbani and Taliban have used Islam as a
shield.  Their policies have nothing to do with Islam.  It is simply
political opportunism! Please help us to get the message across about the
real situation in Afghanistan.

Thank You,
Nazir Ameeriar
http://www.radioafghanistan.com
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Dear Friends,

Please do not ignore this e-mail. This is something that we as women and

essentially as human beings need to support - I don't know if this is going

to help but take 3 minutes out of your life to do your part. Madhu, the

government of Afghanistan, is waging a war upon women.Since the Taliban took

power in 1996, women have had to wear burqua and have been beaten and stoned

in public for not having the proper attire, even if this

means simply not having the mesh covering in front of their eyes. One woman

was beaten to death by an angry mob of fundamentalists for accidentally

exposing her arm(!)

while she was driving. Another was stoned to death for trying to leave the

country with a man who was not a relative. Women are not allowed to work or

even go out in public

without a male relative; professional women such as professors, translators,

doctors, lawyers, artists and writers have been forced from their jobs and

stuffed into their homes. Homes where a woman is present must have their

windows painted so that she can never be seen by outsiders. They must wear

silent shoes so that they are never

heard. Women live in fear of their lives for the slightest misbehavior.

Because they cannot work, those without male relatives or husbands are

either starving to death or begging on the street, even if they hold PhDs! .

Depression is becoming so widespread that it has reached emergency levels.

There is no way in such an extreme Islamic society to know the suicide rate

with certainty, but relief workers are estimating that the

suicide rate among women must be extraordinarily high: those who cannot find

proper medication and treatment for severe depression and would rather take

their lives than live in such conditions. At one of the rare hospitals for

women, a reporter found still, nearly lifeless bodies lying motionless on

top of beds, wrapped in their burqua, unwilling to speak, eat, or do

anything, but slowly wasting away. Others have gone mad and were seen

crouched in corners, perpetually rocking or crying, most of them in fear.

When what little medication that is left finally runs out, one doctor is

considering leaving these

women in front of the president's residence as a form of protest. It is at

the point where the term "human rights violations" has become an

understatement. Husbands have the power of life and death over their women

relatives, especially their wives, but an angry mob has just as much right

to stone or beat a woman, often to death, for exposing an

inch of flesh or offending them in the slightest way. Women enjoyed relative

freedom to work, to dress generally as they wanted, and to drive and appear

in public alone until only 1996. The rapidity of this transition is the main

reason for the depression and suicide. Women who were once educators or

doctors or simply used to basic human freedoms are now severely restricted

and treated as subhuman in the name of right-wing fundamentalist Islam. It

is not their tradition or 'culture,' but it is alien to them, and it is

extreme even for those cultures where fundamentalism is the rule. Everyone

has a right to a tolerable human existence, ! even if they are women in a

Muslim country. If we can threaten military force in Kosovo in the name of

human rights for the sake of ethnic Albanians, citizens of the world can

certainly express peaceful outrage at the oppression, murder and injustice

committed against women by the Taliban.

STATEMENT: In signing this, we agree that the current treatment of women in

Afghanistan is completely UNACCEPTABLE and deserves action by the United

Nations and that the current situation overseas will not be tolerated.

Women's Rights is not a small issue anywhere, and it is UNACCEPTABLE for

women in 2001 to be treated as subhuman and as so much property. Equality

and human decency is a fundamental RIGHT, not a freedom to be granted,

whether one lives in Afghanistan or elsewhere.

1) Giuliana D. Black, Daly City, CA, USA

2) Mariam Nayiny, Palo Alto, CA, USA

3) Sunaina Gulati-Ruh, Palo Al! to, CA USA

4) Megan McCaslin, Palo Alto, CA USA

5) Blake Hallanan, San Francisco, Ca. USA

6) Kit Henderson, Sacramento, CA USA

7) Kara Myers, San Francisco, CA

8) Ellen Tilden, San Fransisco, CA

9) Vanessa Ross, San Francisco, CA

10) Jenna Shaw- Battista, San Francisco, CA

11) Jeanne Racik, Berkeley, CA

12) Julie Silas, Oakland, CA

13) Renee Longstreet, Tarzana, CA

14) Susan Johnson, Encino, CA

15) Kenneth Johnson, Encino, CA

16) Terri Treas, Los Angeles, CA

17) Amy Retzinger, North Hollywood, CA

18) Babette Crooms, Los Angeles, CA

19) Olivia Kienzel; Santa Barbara, CA

20) Sean Dexheimer, Los Angeles, CA

21) Elio Chavez, Jr., Pasadena, CA

22) Gregory Kastigar, Los Angeles, CA

23) Robert Collie, Los Angeles, CA

24) Jeff Garvin, Brea, CA

25) Tricia Allen, Sherman Oaks, CA

26) Jole! en Nordstrom ~ Hollywood, CA

27) Theresa Donahoe - Martinez,CA

28) Jennifer Horn - Concord, CA

29) Roxanne Ryan - Alamo, CA

30) Miriam Tyler- San Jose CA

31) John Burns- San Jose CA

32) Kristin Lynn Minick- Fort Worth TX

33) Jeff Neal- Marietta, GA

34) Anna Neal- Marietta, GA

35) Frances Murley-Fort Worth, TX

36) David Murley-London, England, UK

37) Jillian Dykhouse, Colleyville, TX

38) Bonnie Dykhouse,Colleyville,TX

39) Nancy Williams, Colleyville, TX

40) Georgene Farr, Sterling Heights,MI

41) Joanne Arensberg, Riverview, MI

42) Luann Ouellette, Vermillion, SD

43) Sandie Sullivan, Vermillion, SD

44) Troy Nelson, Minneapolis, MN USA

45) Joseph Miller, Minnepolis, MN USA

46) Kathleen Miller, White Bear ! Lake, MN USA

47) Jerry Marquis, Mpls. Mn. USA

48) Julie Stokes, Coon Rapids, MN USA

49) Tracy Ford, Blaine, MN USA

50) Sheila Lawrence, Monticello, MN USA

51) Brenda Kitchen, Westlake Village, California,USA

52)Teresa Burke, Sherman Oaks, CA, USA

53) Bruce Ehrlich, Sherman Oaks, CA USA

54) Yllania Francis, Los Angeles,CA USA

55) Drew Hedin, Los Angeles, CA USA

56) Laura Paridon, Laguna Woods, CA USA

57) Jeanie Hagedorn, Des Moines, IA USA

58) Sue Christensen, Des Moines, IA USA

59) Sybil Finken, Glenwood, IA USA

60) Luke Finken, Earth

61) Doug Gerace, Lincoln, NE USA

62) Cheryl Gerace, NE

63) Sheri Lew, CO

64) Raven Grace, Boulder, CO

65) Martha M.Mertz, EL, Michigan

66) Colleen R. Cooper, Okemos, ! Michigan

67) Barbara J. Sawyer-Koch, East Lansing, MI

68) Margaret A. Meyers, Okemos, Michigan

69) Mary Helen Espes, Okemos, Michigan

70) Maureen Kirchhoff, Allenspark, CO

71) Bart Johnson, Err, France

72) Sharon O'Connor, Olympia, WA USA

73) Helen Nenson, Olympia, WA USA

74) Kim Hartley, Olympia, WA. USA

75) Jim Hartley, Olympia, WA. USA

76) Talitha Thalya, Wa. USA

77) Lelelewa Tano Rikiho. Boise, ID USA

78)Shayshoshewa Westin, Boise, ID USA

79) Rae Ann Gustafson, Boise, ID USA

80) Ellen Bencken, Boise, ID USA

81) Rocky Bencken, Boise ID USA

82) Lucia Thornton, Fresno, CA USA

83)Kristina Thelen, Livermore,CA USA

84) Julie Ferioli, Oakland, CA USA

85) Deborah Drysdale, San Francisco, CA USA

86) Judy Ol! asov, San Francisco, CA USA

87)Lucinda Olasov,Isle of Palms.SC USA

88) Jennifer H. Mt. Pleasant, SC, USA

89) Sara Saylor Isle of Palms, SC USA

90)Ellen McCully Gastonia NC,USA,

91)Mimi McCully, Gastonia, NC USA

92) Mary Rose Tully, Raleigh, NC USA

93) Douglas B. Tully, Raleigh, NC USA

94) Lorraine Welker, Lyon, France

95) Lucie Bouchard, Lyon, France

96) Mary Kaine, Lyon, France

97) Lisa Kaine, NYC, USA

98) Pamela Caye, NYC, USA

99) Kevin Mandel, NYC, USA

100) Justine Lackey NYC, USA

101) Thomas Aufmesser, Vienna, Austria

102) Erich Aufmesser, Vienna, Austria

103) Sigrid Weinzinger, Vienna, Austria

104) Heide Weinzinger, Zell am See, Austria

105) Erhard Weinzinger, Zell am See, Austria

106) Doris Stein! bichler, Mexico, Mexico

107) Rara Avis, Barcelona, Spain

108) Peter Auer, Vienna, Austria

109) Timur Hanak-Hammerl, Vienna, Austria

110) Josef Fuerst, Vienna, Austria

111) Josef Polzl, Vienna, Austria

112) Wolfgang Sokol, Vienna, Austria

113) Wolfgang Rohorzka, Wiener Neustadt, Austria

114) Ralph A. Hamburger, Vienna, Austria

115) Roland Wagner, Bratislava, Slovakia

116) Adrian Rajter, Bratislava, Slovakia

117) Alzbeta Rajterova, Bratislava Slovakia

118) Helena Le Sage, Bratislava, Slovakia

119) Jitka Dobbersteinova, Bratislava, Slovakia

120) Mariana Lisa, Bratislava, Slovakia

121) Zuzana Kroupova, Praha, Czech Republic

121) Gabriela Drabkova, Praha, Czech Republic

122) Lucia Strauchova, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

123) Luba Taylor, Phoenix, Arizona

124) Jana Plulikova, Trnava, Slovakia

125) Lota Pufflerova, Bratislava, Slovakia

126) Ivana Skodo! va, Bratislava, Slovakia

127) Vladimira Bukerova, London, UK

128) Lubos Groch, Bratislava, Slovakia

129) Edita Jassingerova, Bratislava, Slovakia

130) Alfred Jassinger, Bratislava, Slovakia

131) Nina Jassingerova, Bratislava, Slovakia

132) Saryo en Mati, Den Haag, The Netherlands

133) Satyam Parmeshwar, Zevenbergen, The Netherlands

134) weijke koopmans, amsterdam,the netherlands

135) ronald de boer, amsterdam, the netherlandss

136) anita jolles, Utrecht, the netherlands

137) Rory grashuis, utrecht, the netherlands

138) olof jolles, klimmen, the netherlands

139) eveline jolles, klimmen, the netherlands

140) frieda van der hout, utrecht, the netherlands

141) gina wijgerse, amsterdam, the netherlands

142) pamela hamilton, amsterdam, the netherlands

143) monique steenbeek, utrecht, the netherlands

144) daniel loewe, krung thep , thailand

145) malin stenborg, new york, US

146) annelie nilsson, london, U! K

147) rasesh joshi, phoenix, AZ

148) swaran mohan, mesa,AZ

149) amita vohra, paris, france

150) Francisco Cuadra, Paris, France

151) Anna Maria Hoffmann, Paris, France

152) Yuto Kitamura, Paris, France

153) Koto Kanno, Paris, France

154) Namtip Aksornkool, Paris, France

155) Jenny Johnson, Barcelona, Spain

156) Antonia Clare, London, UK

157) Sue Green, London, UK

158) Adrian du Plessis, Cambridge, UK

159) John & Margaret Ferguson

160) Davine Thaw, Durban, South Africa

161) Charmaine Reddy, Durban, South Africa

162)Loretta van Schalkwyk, Durban, South Africa

163) Jack Blaker, South Africa

164) Victor Munnik, South Africa

165) Sicelo Dladla, South Africa

166) Gillian Addison, South Africa

167) Penny McKenzie, South Africa 

168) Leila McKenna, South Africa
 
169) Avril Joffe, South Africa

170) Robin Perros, South Africa

171) Jeanne Stephens - Mozambique

172) Hélène Madore - Mozambique
 
173) Jacqueline Lambert-Madore - Canada
 
174) Therese Rickman-Bull
 
175) Roger Bull

176) Maryam Ameeriar

177) Nazir Ameeriar
178 Angela McCartney Dublin, Ireland
179 Terry Doyle Waterford           "
180 Debra Strong                US
181 Kathy Yurica                US
182 Kelly Leosis                 US
183 Jocelyn Cameron          US
184 Shannon Viner              US
185 Jesse Stein                  US
186 Page Chance                US
187 Lucinda Alexander         US
189 Susan Browne               US
190 Angela Rickman  Ottawa, Canada
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