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Afghan MP tells Ottawa Council to Stop Arms ShowsMichael Lessard..., Lundi, Juin 22, 2009 - 18:41 (Communiqués | Droits / Rights / Derecho | Globalisation | Guerre / War | Repression | Solidarite internationale) Support our "Surge for Peace" Malalai Joya is an elected Afghan Member of Parliament. However, in May 2007 she was barred from Parliament for three years because she had denounced the many foreign-backed warlords and drug barons who dominate her government. While the Afghan Parliament passed a law giving immunity to all Afghan's who have committed war crimes over the previous 25 years, it also passed a law saying that Afghan MPs could not criticise each other. So it is permissible to have MPs in Afghanistan's parliament who are war criminals, but it is not permissible to have MPs in that Parliament who dare to risk death threats for merely criticising the presence of those war criminals. This is the democracy that Canada helped to install and is now protecting. Canada helped the US to replace Taliban warlords with other warlords from the "Northern Alliance" who killed tens of thousands of innocent civilians in Kabul alone during the 1990s. Excerpts from Malalai's letter were read to Councillors at the Corporate Services Committee meeting on June 15, 2009. Her struggle to expose Afghan warlords in her government and her removal from Parliament was described. However, several Councillors expressed their outright opposition to the display of graphic photographs -- provided by Malalai Joya -- that showed civilian victims of allied bombing attacks. These attacks were carried out by warplanes thoroughly embedded with numerous essential Canadian components manufactured by CANSEC 2009 exhibitors. One Councillor even stated in his closing remarks that Malalai Joya should (instead of being so critical) be thankful that Canadian troops allow her to have a voice in the Afghan Parliament. (The Councillor apparently did not absorb the fact that Malalai has banned from attending the warlord-dominated parliament that Canada helped to install and that Canadian troops are now protecting.) Here is the letter received from Malalai Joya on June 12, 2009.
For more about MP Malalai Joya, please view COAT's slide show on CANSEC. * The section of the slide show on Malalai starts here: * Malalai's website : www.malalaijoya.com See this 46-page issue of COAT's magazine (issue #59) called |
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