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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4Biographies of participants in the Spring 2011 Afghanistan Delegation
led by Kathy Kelly who attended all 3 Pitstop Ploughshares trials in Dublin
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Hi, I am a Mother and Grandmother, Great Grandmother and i am more than outraged by what i am hearing and seeing in Afghanistan and all the other places in the world that the US and its allies see fit to destroy for oil, gas, water or just power hungry control! It is time it stopped. The hundreds of thousands that have died or been misfigured physically and mentallly by what war does to everyone we pray for each day. I am very proud of the folks who put their lives on the line to make the powers that be take some notice and give hope and support to the oppressed. I also know that we could lose them in these extremely dangerous times! I will pray for their families that they return home to continue their work. In Solidarity, Shirley Hardy and Family
The Ghost and the Machine
by Kathy Kelly with research by the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers
February 29, 2012
Fazillah, age 25, lives in Maidan Shar, the central city of Afghanistan’s Wardak province. She married about six years ago, and gave birth to a son, Aymal, who just turned five without a father. Fazillah tells her son, Aymal, that his father was killed by an American bomber plane, remote-controlled by computer.
That July, in 2007, Aymal’s father was sitting in a garden with four other men. A weaponized drone, what we used to call an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle or UAV, was flying, unseen, overhead, and fired missiles into the garden, killing all five men.
Now Fazillah and Aymal share a small dwelling with the deceased man’s mother. According to the tradition, a husband’s relatives are responsible to look after a widow with no breadwinner remaining in her immediate family. She and her son have no regular source of bread or income, but Fazillah says that her small family is better off than it might have been: one of the men killed alongside her husband left behind a wife and child but no other living relatives that could provide them with any source of support, at all.
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Salam
Afghanistan is a lot more complex. When there is no foreign invader, Afghans are fighting each other and when there is an invader we fight the invader. Good that there is support but you underestimate how bad the situation is and how it is just not the USA who is destroying our country. Don't make the mistake of preaching Christianity to Afghan unless you want to risk your life and those who show you hospitality.
Solidarity!