In response to the words of Rina Amiri, the United States of America’s representative in Afghanistan women’s affairs, the Purple Saturdays Movement stated: “The international community led by the United States of America is contrary to all treaties and agreements that they concluded with the previous government of Afghanistan.” They handed over Afghanistan’s sovereignty to the Taliban group after nearly two years of negotiations behind closed doors, ignoring the national interests of the Afghanistan people and the achievements of the previous two decades, particularly in the field of the rights and freedoms of Afghanistan women.
“Even though international lobbyists of the Taliban group spoke of a change in the Taliban’s policy and thoughts at the beginning of the transfer of Afghanistan’s sovereignty to this group, the two years of this group’s rule over the country showed that the Taliban are alien to the concepts of today’s universality and, from an ideological and structural point of view, do not have the ability to cope with the people of Afghanistan and the international community,” they added.
The “Purple Saturdays Movement” has also stated that “the claim of Miss. Rina Amiri, the US special representative for the affairs of women and girls in Afghanistan, that the Doha meeting was held with the widespread insistence of Afghanistani and human rights defenders on the necessity of direct interaction with the Taliban, is completely false.” It emphasised the general anger of citizens, the migration of thousands of people after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, the widespread arrest of ordinary citizens, the formation and expansion of various women’s protest movements, and hundreds of other cases that demonstrate the depth of the divide between the Afghanistan people and the Taliban.
The Purple Saturdays movement believes that stopping paying ransom to the Taliban group, establishing a democratic government, and ensuring social justice in the country are the only ways to end the current situation.
