Nederland en Afghanistan 2

Vandaag is bij twee zelfmoordaanslagen op voertuigen van de door de NAVO geleide troepen in Afghanistan een Duitse soldaat om het leven gekomen en zijn elf mensen gewond geraakt. 'Er zullen meer zelfmoordaanslagen volgen,' zei Mullah Hanif, een woordvoerder van de Taliban.'Wij zullen met alle middelen vechten om de buitenlandse strijdkrachten te verslaan.' De BBC meldt ondertussen dat 'more than 1,400 people have been killed in violence linked to militants in Afghanistan this year - the worst violence the country has seen since US-led forces ousted the Taleban in late 2001.' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4435156.stm Volgens Robert Fisk, Midden Oosten-correspondent van The Independent, verslechtert de situatie in Afghanistan met de dag. 15 september van dit jaar deed Amnesty International een beroep op de Afghaanse parlementsleden 'to enact legislation that will enable the women of Afghanistan to lead lives free from fear of violence, including by publicly condemning all forms of violence against women and by removing laws that are discriminatory against women. The organization urged deputies to replace the rule of the gun with the rule of law, notably through the reform, strengthening and accessibility of the justice system. It further called upon deputies to resist human rights abuses and promote accountability in the ''war on terror'' by enacting, inter alia, legislation that will end illegal detention in undisclosed locations by US and Afghan forces, which is in violation of international law; and granting all detainees full access to lawyers, doctors and families.' http://www.amnestyusa.org/countries/afghanistan/document.do?id=ENGASA110132005 Maart vorig jaar al waarschuwde Human Rights Watch voor het volgende: 'today, on Afghan soil, the United States is maintaining a system of arrests and detention as part of its ongoing military and intelligence operations that violates international human rights law and international humanitarian law (the laws of war). In doing so, the United States is endangering the lives of Afghan civilians, undermining efforts to restore the rule of law in Afghanistan, and calling into question its
commitment to upholding basic rights.' http://hrw.org/reports/2004/afghanistan0304/afghanistan0304.pdf Het kabinet Balkenende is mede verantwoordelijk voor deze Amerikaanse militaire terreur door de actieve inzet van Nederlandse strijdkrachten in Afghanistan.