Film Screening: In Taliban Country
STOP THE WAR COALITION is hosting a screening of 'TALIBAN COUNTRY' by award-winning filmmakerCARMELA BARANOWSKA...
7pm MONDAY MAY 12
UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, SYDNEY
BUILDING 2, LEVEL 5, ROOM 30
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In May/June 2004, Walkley-award winning investigative reporter Carmela Baranowska was embedded with US Marines in one of the most dangerous and remote parts of Afghanistan, beyond the reach of UN and aid agencies.
Frustrated by the limitations imposed on what she could report, Baranowska decided to travel back to Oruzgon Province independently of the US Marines and Afghan militia that she had journeyed with up to that point. At that time, Western media outlets issued reports of her 'kidnapping' by the Taliban -- a ''fact'' the documentary dispels. (The source of reports of an abandoned vehicle and Taliban abduction of a western woman has never been uncovered.)
More importantly, Baranowska's footage offers disturbing first-person accounts of the treatment being dealt Afghans by US marines in the war on terror and has led to the opening of two U.S. military investigations.
• Democracy Now, April 1:
AMY GOODMAN INTERVIEW WITH CARMELA BARANOWSKA
• YouTube:
WATCH 'TALIBAN COUNTRY' ONLINE
• Guerilla News Network:
WATCH 'TALIBAN COUNTRY' ONLINE (4 parts; QuickTime video)
• Journeyman Pictures:
BUY DVD OF 'TALIBAN COUNTRY' ONLINE
UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY, BROADWAY, BUILDING 2, LEVEL 5, ROOM 30 (near Central Station & Railway Square)
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Re: Film Screening: In Taliban Country
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Does it show the Taliban planting mines along the road to Kandahar, which are going to blow up the people of Afhganistan for decades to come? Does it show the Taliban training suicide bombers? Does it show the Taliban beating women on the streets because their ankles are showing?
Say what you want about the USA, but women are allowed to be educated, they are not considered to be the property of men, it is illegal to beat them, and they are not forced into marriage aged 12. There is separation of church and state.
These people are dangerous religious fundamentalists. They are not our friends.
I wonder if any of you are GAY or LIVING TOGETHER IN 'SIN' or teaching EQUALITY OF WOMEN - if so, the Taliban would have you stoned to death. As would most of the other Moslem sects within that country.
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Does this prove these Taliban only share the same religious fundemental beliefs as the Christian and Judaism?
What makes you think that everybody opposed to US and their puppets drug growinf/dealing economy are supporters of the “Taliban” a US/ wahabi puppets brand of muslim religion imposed on afganistan. There is no separation of church and state with the Taliban.
. How did this happen?
Precisely because this lot of Taliban fundementalists were armed and put into conditions of seizing power by your lovely god fearing yanks, in the struggle against a pro-USSR secular type state.
Ater competing with the other drug dealing CIA/warlords who are now back in power in Kabul.
No doubt if you were around then you were cheerleading for “freedom”with along with the US for arming the US creation “taliban” and bin Laden.US/saudi puppet financed mercenaries?
‘Say what you want about the USA, but women are allowed to be educated, they are not considered to be the property of men, it is illegal to beat them, and they are not forced into marriage aged 12. There is separation of church and state.”
Grow up, stop wanking with uncle Sam proaganda, look at some real history,the world is not the US ,
The same secular type government seperation of church exists in many modern societies.Often with more real freedom than in todays monarchial USA.
Even in the Stalinist USSR . this was a secular system that did more to wipe out the veil and Muslim AND Christian fundamentalist feudal property based rulers than any other.
Return to the 14th Century
You might think it is OK for fundamentalist extremists to be in control of any given country, but I do not. I believe in equal rights for women. It is not just the Taliban, it is virtually the whole male population of this country that wants to oppress women and prevent them being educated. You are quite deceptive when you make out it is just the U.S. that is 'attacking' Afghanistan. The leaders of many civilized countries have studied the situation carefully and made a decision to send troops in to keep order. Some of these countries are Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemberg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, U.K., U.S., Albania, Austria, Azerbaijan, Croatia, Finland, Macedonia, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland, New Zealand.
This is the stated aim of the operation:
ISAF's role isto assist theGovernment of Afghanistan and the International Community in maintainingsecurity within its area of operation. ISAF supports the Government ofAfghanistan in expanding its authority to the rest of the country, and inproviding a safe and secure environment conducive to free and fair elections,the spread of the rule of law, and the reconstruction of the country.
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As for trumpeting the superiority of the US in human rights ?
Former President Carter says the U.S. "has abandoned the basic principle of human rights."
"I don't think it. I know it," Carter told CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
"Our country for the first time in my life time has abandoned the basic principle of human rights," Carter said. "We've said that the Geneva Conventions do not apply to those people in Abu Ghraib prison and Guantanamo, and we've said we can torture prisoners and deprive them of an accusation of a crime to which they are accused."
Carter also said President Bush creates his own definition of human rights.
Carter's comments come on the heels of an October 4 article in The New York Times disclosing the existence of secret Justice Department memorandums supporting the use of "harsh interrogation techniques." These include "head-slapping, simulated drowning and frigid temperatures," according to the Times.
The White House last week confirmed the existence of the documents but would not make them public.
Responding to the newspaper report Friday, Bush defended the techniques used, saying, "This government does not torture people."
Asked about Bush's comments, Carter said, "That's not an accurate statement if you use the international norms of torture as has always been honored — certainly in the last 60 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was promulgated.
"But you can make your own definition of human rights and say we don't violate them, and you can make your own definition of torture and say we don't violate them."
Death by Stoning
Yes, I believe there has been torture. There always is in wartime. Head slapping, near-drowning, near-freezing.
But picture this: a young girl is gang raped. She and the rapists are all taken to court and found guilty. The girl is stoned to death. The men get off with a light sentence.
Which is worse?
I wonder what is behind your way of thinking. It has got nothing to do with liberty, egality and fraternity.
"Trumpeting the superiority of the U.S. in human rights...."
Well, perhaps you could tell me where you would rather live, in Australia or the U.S. or in a fundamentalist Moslem nation under Sharia law? Are you happy to have your female relatives covered from head to foot, unable to leave the house without a male relative, unable to get an education and married off to some dirty old fifty year old when they are twelve?
You really haven't thought this through.
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