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- From: dan sumner <permadan@yahoo.com>
- Subject: Unidentified subject!
- Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 11:18:06 -0800 (PST)
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 that 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, so that
depression is becoming so
widespread that it has reached emergency levels.
There 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, who cannot
find proper medication and treatment for severe
depression and would
rather take their lives than live in such
conditions, has increased
significantly.
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 Ph.D.'s. There are almost no medical
facilities available for
women, and relief workers, in protest, have mostly
left the country, taking
medicine and psychologists and other things
necessary to treat the
skyrocketing level of depression among women.
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. One doctor is
considering, when what little
medication that is left finally runs out, leaving
these women in front of
the president's residence as a form of peaceful
protest.
It is at the point where the term 'human rights
violations' has become an
understatement. 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,
dress generally as they wanted, and 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 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 support and 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 2000 to be treated as
sub-human and so much as
property. Equality and human decency is a RIGHT not
a freedom, whether
one lives in Afghanistan or elsewhere.
1) Suzanne Dathe, Grenoble, France
2) Laurence COMPARAT, Grenoble,France
3) Philippe MOTTE, Grenoble, France
4) Jok FERRAND, Mont St Martin, France
5) Emmanuelle PIGNOL, St Martin d'Heres, FRANCE
6) Marie GAUTHIER, Grenoble, FRANCE
7) Laurent VESCALO, Grenoble,FRANCE
8) Mathieu MOY, St Egreve, FRANCE
9) Bernard BLANCHET, Mont St Martin, FRANCE
10) Tassadite FAVRIE, Grenoble, FRANCE
11) Loic GODARD, St Ismier, FRANCE
12) Benedicte PASCAL, Grenoble, FRANCE
13) Khedaidja BENATIA, Grenoble, FRANCE
14) Marie-Therese LLORET, Grenoble,FRANCE
15) Benoit THEAU, Poitiers, FRANCE
16) Bruno CONSTANTIN, Poitiers, FRANCE
17) Christian COGNARD, Poitiers, FRANCE
18) Robert GARDETTE, Paris, FRANCE
19) Claude CHEVILLARD, Montpellier, FRANCE
20) Gilles FREISS, Montpellier, FRANCE
21) Patrick AUGEREAU, Montpellier, FRANCE.
22) Jean IMBERT, Marseille, FRANCE
23) Jean-Claude MURAT, Toulouse, France
24) Anna BASSOLS, Barcelona, Spain
25) Mireia DUNACH, Barcelona, Spain
26) Michel VILLAZ, Grenoble, France
27) Pages Frederique, Dijon, France
28) Rodolphe FISCHMEISTER, Chatenay-Malabry, France
29) Francois BOUTEAU, Paris, France
30) Patrick PETER, Paris, France
31) Lorenza RADICI, Paris, France
32) Monika Siegenthaler, Bern, Switzerland
33) Mark Philp, Glasgow, Scotland
34) Tomas Andersson, Stockholm, Sweden
35) Jonas Eriksson, Stockholm, Sweden
36) Karin Eriksson, Stockholm, Sweden
37) Ake Ljung, Stockholm, Sweden
38) Carina Sedlmayer, Stockholm, Sweden
39) Rebecca Uddman, Stockholm, Sweden
40) Lena Skog, Stockholm, Sweden
41) Micael Folke, Stockholm, Sweden
42) Britt-Marie Folke, Stockholm, Sweden
43) Birgitta Schuberth, Stockholm, Sweden
44) Lena Dahl, Stockholm, Sweden
45) Ebba Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
46) Jessica Carlsson, Vaxjo, Sweden
47) Sara Blomquist, Vaxjo, Sweden
48) Magdalena Fosseus, Vaxjo, Sweden
49) Charlotta Langner, Goteborg, Sweden
50) Andrea Egedal, Goteborg, Sweden
51) Lena Persson, Stockholm, Sweden
52) Magnus Linder, Umea ,Sweden
53) Petra Olofsson, Umea, Sweden
54) Caroline Evenbom, Vaxjo, Sweden
55) Asa Pettersson, Grimsas, Sweden
56) Jessica Bjork, Grimsas, Sweden
57) Linda Ahlbom Goteborg, Sweden
58) Jenny Forsman, Boras, Sweden
59) Nina Gunnarson, Kinna, Sweden
60) Andrew Harrison, New Zealand
61) Bryre Murphy, New Zealand
62) Claire Lugton, New Zealand
63) Sarah Thornton, New Zealand
64) Rachel Eade, New Zealand
65) Magnus Hjert, London, UK
67) Madeleine Stamvik, Hurley, UK
68) Susanne Nowlan, Vermont, USA
69) Lotta Svenby, Malmoe, Sweden
70) Adina Giselsson, Malmoe, Sweden
71) Anders Kullman, Stockholm, Sweden
72) Rebecka Swane, Stockholm,Sweden
73) Jens Venge, Stockholm, Sweden
74) Catharina Ekdahl, Stockholm, Sweden
75) Nina Fylkegard, Stockholm, Sweden
76) Therese Stedman, Malmoe, Sweden
77) Jannica Lund, Stockholm, Sweden
78) Douglas Bratt
79) Mats Lofstrom, Stockholm, Sweden
80) Li Lindstrom, Sweden
81) Ursula Mueller, Sweden
82) Marianne Komstadius, Stockholm, Sweden
83) Peter Thyselius, Stockholm, Sweden
84) Gonzalo Oviedo, Quito, Ecuador
85) Amalia Romeo, Gland, Switzerland
86) Margarita Restrepo, Gland, Switzerland
87) Eliane Ruster, Crans p.C., Switzerland
88) Jennifer Bischoff-Elder, Hong Kong
89) Azita Lashgari, Beirut, Lebanon
90) Khashayar Ostovany, New York, USA
91) Lisa L Miller, Reno NV
92) Danielle Avazian, Los Angeles, CA
93) Sara Risher, Los Angeles, Ca.
94) Melanie London, New York, NY
95) Susan Brownstein , Los Angeles, CA
96) Steven Raspa, San Francisco, CA
97) Margot Duane, Ross, CA
98) Natasha Darnall, Los Angeles, CA
99) Candace Brower, Evanston, IL
100) James Kjelland, Evanston, IL
101) Michael Jampole, Beach Park, IL, USA
102) Diane Willis, Wilmette, IL, USA
103) Sharri Russell, Roanoke, VA, USA
104) Faye Cooley, Roanoke, VA, USA
105) Celeste Thompson, Round Rock, TX, USA
106) Sherry Stang, Pflugerville, TX, USA
107) Amy J. Singer, Pflugerville, TX USA
108) Milissa Bowen, Austin, TX USA
109) Michelle Jozwiak, Brenham, TX USA
110) Mary Orsted, College Station, TX USA
111) Janet Gardner, Dallas, TX USA
112) Marilyn Hollingsworth, Dallas, TX USA
113) Nancy Shamblin, Garland. TX USA
114) K. M. Mullen, Houston, TX - USA
115) Noreen Tolman, Houston, Texas - USA
116) Judy Bechtel, Merced, CA - USA
117) Delores Iliff, FL, USA
118) Nicole Propper, FL, USA
119) Bonnie LaChance, FL, USA
120) JoAnn Blades, FL, USA
121) Pam Blades, FL, USA
122) Louise Campbell, FL, USA
123) Marcy DeSanto, FL, USA
124) Donald Blades, FL,USA
125) Tom LaChance, FL, USA
126) Craig Huff, GA, USA
127) Karen Huff, FL, USA
128) Paul Jarrell, Wadsworth, OH - USA
129) Ian Austin , TRINIDAD TOBAGO
130) Germaine Maxwell, POS, TRINIDAD TOBAGO
131) Phyllis Serrao, TRINIDAD TOBAGO
132) Max Serrao, TRINIDAD TOBAGO
133) Lynn Waldron. TRINIDAD TOBAGO
134) Carole Carmichael, TRINIDAD TOBAGO
135) Denise Clarke, TRINIDAD TOBAGO
136) Lisa Boisson, TRINIDAD TOBAGO
137) Yvonne Roberts-White, TRINIDAD TOBAGO
137) Eileen Roberts, TRINIDAD TOBAGO
138) Elizabeth Chin Aleong, British Virgin Islands
139) Joy Ramlogan, TRINIDAD TOBAGO
140) Eriko Togo, DC, USA
141) Luca F. Mezzomo, ITALY
142) Luigi Ruggerone, ITALY
143) Gabriele Parenti, ITALY
144) Alessandro Delia-Russell, ITALYn
145) Cristiana Vitale, ITALY
146) Cristina Davies, Egypt
147) Noha Bawazir, Lebanon
148) Carlos Milani, France
149) Andrea Moraes, Brasil
150) Luiz Eduardo Braga, Brasil
151) Debbie Andree, AZ USA
152) Klemens Arnarson, Iceland
153) Eva Ros Johannsdottir, Iceland
154) Helga Benediktsdottir, Iceland
155) Sigridur Benediktsdottir, Iceland
156) Arnar Geirsson, Iceland
157) Tryggvi Helgason, Iceland
158) Samuel J. Samuelsson, Iceland
159) Sigurbj?rn Sveinsson, Iceland
160) Gunnar M. Sandholt, Iceland
161) Gudmundur Einarsson, Iceland
161) Logi Jonsson, Iceland
162) Gudrun petursdottir, Iceland
163) Andre Joyal, QuÈbec
164) Robert David, QuÈbec, Canada
165) Olga Gladkikh, Antigonish, Canada
166) Suzanne Huett, Halifax, Canada
167) Heather Myers, Antigonish, Canada
168) Chris Storseth, Antigonish, Canada
169) Fred Freundlich, Spain
170) Matt Gerber, New York, USA
171) Susan Holzman, New York, USA
172) Margot Atlas, Great Neck, NY, USA
173) Mark Atlas, Great Neck, NY USA
174) Ann Harada, New York, NY, USA
175) Heather Webber, Salem, OR, USA
176) Angus Webber, Salem, OR, USA
177) Audrey Silver Levin, New York, NY, USA
178) Lauren Howard Coleman, New York, NY, USA
179) James A. Coleman, New York, NY, USA
180) Kara Martinez Weilding, Brooklyn, NY, USA
181) Christopher Weilding, Brooklyn, NY, USA
182) Odin Townley, New York, NY USA
183) Henry Barbey, New York,NY USA
184) Pete Elder, Carmel, NY USA
185) Melanie Sooter, Lawrence, KS USA
186) Diana Morton
187) Kristine Stumm, Denver, CO, USA
188) Lianne Meyer, Denver, CO, USA
189) Esther Son, Denver, CO, USA
190) Jenny Geiser, Denver, CO, USA
191) Elaine Bacon, Ft. Thomas, KY, USA
192) Christina Gilardi, Cincinnati, OH, USA
193) Delilah Schermer, Cincinnati, OH, USA
194) Donna Denny, Batesville, IN, USA
195) Theadell Brown, Chicago, Il, USA
196) Britton Garnjost, New Paltz, NY, USA
197) Tanvi Kachhy, Bay Shore, NY, USA
198) Payal Mistry, Boston, MA, USA
199) Manjula Nair, Boston, MA, USA
200) Kendra W. Marshall Boston, MA
201) Jeremy C. Franz Boston, MA
203) Dan Sumner New Orleans, LA
PLEASE COPY this email on to a new message, sign the
bottom and forward
it to everyone on your distribution lists. If you
receive this list with
more than 200 names on it, please e-mail a copy of
it to:
sarabande@brandeis.edu
mailto:sarabande@brandeis.edu
Even if you decide not to sign, please be
considerate and
do not kill the petition.
Thank you.
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