Hekmatyar Apprises Anan Of US Brutalities In Afghanistan, Seeks UN Role

posted by NYC on Friday March 07, @12:14PM

Paknews, 2003-03-07

KABUL, Afghanistan: Mar 07 (PNS)- Chief of Hizb-e-Islami Afghanistan Gulbadin Hekmatyar lodged protest to the United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Anan against the brutal US bombings and firings on the innocent Afghan civilians, seeking the world body intervention for the solution of Afghan crisis and restoration of peace in the war torn country.

In a letter written to the Kofi Anan he draws the Secretary General's attention to American bombardments on the civilian areas of Afghanistan in the name of search for al-Qaeda and Taliban outfits.

"In the latest raids on Helmand province by American B-52's and C-130 aircraft, code-named "operation Eagle Fury", more than 17 women and 45 children were massacred in a single village," he said. The Hizb chief recalled to the UN General Secretary said that during the infamous incident of Dehrawood in Uruzgan province in which a wedding party was subjected to an American style civilized treatment of seven 1000 kg bombs unleashed by the 'champions of human rights' killing 117 people and injuring another 53.

"The Americans claimed that their pilots only acted in self-defense. The truth of the matter is that the local spies had informed their American master that one of the Taliban top commanders was going to attend the party," he said. "This time, they repeated the same old lies about their air-raids in Baghran," Hekmatyar added in his letter.

He said that through such savage air-raids and acts of genocide, United States wants to infuse terror in the hearts of Afghans.

"The Afghans want to know how long these savage bombardments will continue. How long will they be subjected to acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing under the pretext of hunt for Taliban or Al-Qaeda remnants? And till what time the UN will provide the Americans with justification to avenge their failure on the innocent civilians, killing them in hordes and razing to the ground their entire villages?," the Hizb leader asked Kofi Anan.

He said that use of force cannot established peace in Afghanistan. It is only through a just system that peace can be guaranteed.

He said that the unholy ravaging war against Pashtuns of Afghanistan, consisting 65% of the population, has continued, with the active involvement of pro-Russian minority groups, unabated throughout the American Crusade euphemized as war against terrorism. "The Afghans want to know why the Americans have targeted Pashtun-dominated areas in the South and East of the country. Why are they not launching any operations in the North which was also under the rule of Taliban with many of their staunch followers hailing from the North?"

The letter said: "It is a great irony that many of those countries that are directly involved in the Afghan carnage are also posing as peacekeepers and supporters of the Afghan nation."

He said that the Afghans were desperately looking forward to a truly peace keeping force not aligned with those countries that were responsible for their woos and had their own axes to grind in our land. "But, to the dismay of the entire nation, the UN helped bring those countries to our soil which were directly or indirectly involved in the crisis, and are still adding fuel to the flames."

"Now, after the passage of one year, the American civilian and military officials confess that security in Afghanistan is fragile and attacks against the Americans have been intensified," Hikmatyar said in the letter.

He claimed that resistance is scaling new heights and the American casualties are roughly five per day. The number of American casualties has long ago passed the 1000 mark.

"It is quite evident that G Bush wishes to be crowned as the conqueror of the World. To achieve this elusive end, he is playing with the lives of innocent Afghans and Americans jeopardizing the peace of the entire world.

Continued.

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He said Afghans will never forget the savage acts of the so-called champions of democracy. Hekmatyar said that poppy cultivation under the puppet regime has scaled new heights unprecedented in the history of the country. Security is so fragile that even the UN officials are not safe.

He sought a positive role of United Nations for the solution the Afghan crisis and demanded withdrawal foreign troops from Afghanistan, effective measures by the UN in all the neighboring countries of Afghanistan to check inflow of weapons to Afghanistan through air and land, restriction of the interim government in a matter to make it acceptable to all Afghans, undertakings from Russians, Americans, British and Germans that they would not indulge in printing bank notes for the government or any group, free and fair elections according to a schedule to be agreed upon in an extraordinary intra-Afghan conference which would also take decisions on the issue of restoration of peace and active UN role in convening this conference and avoiding the past mistakes of allowing the Americans and the Russians to dictate their terms and invite groups of their own choice.

He also demanded that the Afghan groups should guarantee that Afghan soil will not be a source of instability in the region and a base for terrorism, nor will poppy cultivation and trade be allowed to continue.

"The world body should strive to provide an opportunity to the Afghans to decide their future in a free and fair atmosphere and stop the flow of deadly weapons to Afghanistan by stationing its troops in those countries which are directly involved in adding fuel to the flames of war in our country," the letter added.

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