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Re: [wanita-muslimah] Re: Perang, Damai, dan Perempuan

 

karakter orang asia selatan : India, pakistan, srilangka, bangladeh, nepal termasuk afghanistan itu sepertinya keras dan antar kelompok tidak pernah akur, mungkin kayak orang Indonesia ya ? any comments ??

--- Pada Ming, 3/10/10, kmjp47@indosat.net.id <kmjp47@indosat.net.id> menulis:

Dari: kmjp47@indosat.net.id <kmjp47@indosat.net.id>
Judul: Re: [wanita-muslimah] Re: Perang, Damai, dan Perempuan
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Tanggal: Minggu, 3 Oktober, 2010, 7:54 AM

 

Begitu simpel? Apakah kalau Taliban kembali menguasai

Afganistan nasib perempuan di san akan jadilebih bagus?

Biarkan Afgan mengatur dirinya sendiri, tetapi Afgan yang

mana? Sepanjang yang menentukan kaum laki-laki, nasib

perempuan ya akan sama saja. Itu inti dari keluhan Ann

Jones.

KM

----Original Message----

From: linadahlan@yahoo.com

Date: 03/10/2010 7:43

To: <wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com>

Subj: [wanita-muslimah] Re: Perang, Damai, dan Perempuan

Tentara Koalisinya cabut ajah dari Afghan dan biarkan

Afghan mengatur dirinya sendiri. Ntu kalo Ann Jones peduli

ama nasib pere di sana. Dimane-mane juga yang lemah yang

jadi korban.

http://www.antaranews.com/berita/1280125033/dokumen-

rahasia-perang-afghanistan-bocor

wassalam,

--- In wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com, Dwi Soegardi

<soegardi@...> wrote:

>

> Wawancara dalam acara tv Democracy Now! dengan Ann

Jones, jurnalis

> yang meliput perang Afghanistan sejak 2001:

>

> ...... war is a guy thing. Men fight with each other.

Then they sit

> down at the table, negotiate some kind of power sharing

agreement, and

> go on jockeying for that power relationship as they rule

the country.

> But all the while, they go on raping, murdering,

displacing women and

> children, so that when men end war and say, "Now we have

peace," war

> is not over for women. The war against women goes on, to

such an

> extent that today, if you look at the demographics, we

are short 60

> million women in this world who have been killed and

lost in war. (Ann

> Jones, "War Is Not Over When It's Over: Women Speak Out

from the Ruins

> of War.")

>

> Working with the International Rescue Committee, we gave

digital

> cameras to women and asked them to photograph the

blessings and the

> problems in their lives. It was really a project to

encourage them to

> begin to articulate their own situation and speak up in

their own

> villages and communities on behalf of their own

interests. And the

> women were amazing. They did fantastic work. They spoke

up very loudly

> in their own interests.

>

> And what they gave us, really, was blueprints for peace.

What they

> addressed were the problems of getting safe water,

getting safe access

> to their fields to work, getting education for their

children, getting

> healthcare, getting places for community members to

meet. In other

> words, the women are concerned about the future of their

families and

> their communities living a peaceful life. And this, it

seemed to me,

> was such important support for what the UN has been

saying for a

> decade now, that you will not get durable peace anywhere

in the world

> in the aftermath of conflict unless women are involved

every step of

> the way. And that's exactly what we are not seeing in

Afghanistan

> today.

> (Ann Jones, "War Is Not Over When It's Over: Women Speak

Out from the

> Ruins of War.")

>

> Dua hal tentang perang (dalam kasus ini perang

Afghanistan)

> 1. laki-laki berperang, perempuan jadi korban. Ketika

laki-laki

> berhenti bertikai dan duduk di meja perundingan,

> perang terhadap perempuan tidak ikut berakhir.

Penderitaan mereka

> berlanjut dan mereka tidak pernah diajak untuk

mengupayakan

> perdamaian.

>

> 2. ketika perempuan diberi kesempatan untuk bertindak,

mereka

> melakukan hal-hal luar biasa:

> - pengadaan air bersih, pembuatan jalan ke sawah/ladang,

pendidikan

> anak, kesehatan, hingga sarana untuk pertemuan

masyarakat ........

>

> Masihkah soal Perang dan Damai dipercayakan kepada laki-

laki?

>

> Baca lengkapnya (atau lihat videonya) di

> http://www.democracynow.

org/2010/9/30/ann_jones_on_war_is_not

>

> Ann Jones on "War Is Not Over When It's Over: Women and

the Unseen

> Consequences of Conflict"

>

> Ann Jones has spent much of the past nine years in

Afghanistan working

> as a journalist, photographer and humanitarian aid

worker. She has

> focused largely on the impact the war has had on the

women of

> Afghanistan. Her new book is War Is Not Over When It's

Over: Women and

> the Unseen Consequences of Conflict. [includes rush

transcript]

>

> Filed under Afghanistan

>

> Guest:

>

> Ann Jones, writer and photographer. Her new book is

titled War Is Not

> Over When It's Over: Women Speak Out from the Ruins of

War.

>

> JUAN GONZALEZ: In Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai

has unveiled a

> seventy-member peace council that the Afghan government

and the Obama

> administration hope will broach talks with the Taliban.

But human

> rights groups have criticized Karzai for including

former warlords,

> suspected drug traffickers, and Taliban fighters on the

commission.

> Rachel Reid of Human Rights Watch said, quote, "Many of

these men are

> unlikely peacemakers. There are too many names here that

Afghans will

> associate with war crimes, warlordism and corruption."

> McClatchy Newspapers reports members of the so-called

peace council

> include Abdul Rab Rasul Sayyaf, who's been implicated in

the deaths of

> thousands of civilians. Another peace council member is

Maulvi

> Qalamuddin, a former Taliban deputy minister who oversaw

the closure

> of girls' schools and the flogging of women who failed

to cover

> themselves in a burqa.

>

> AMY GOODMAN: Human rights groups have also questioned

why more Afghan

> women have not been named to the council. Of the seventy

members, just

> six are women.

> Our first guest today, Ann Jones, has spent much of the

past nine

> years in Afghanistan working as a journalist,

photographer and

> humanitarian aid worker. She's focused largely on the

impact the war

> has had on the women of Afghanistan. In 2006, Ann Jones

wrote the book

> Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan. Her

new book is

> called War Is Not Over When It's Over: Women and the

Unseen

> Consequences of Conflict. It's just been published.

> We welcome you to Democracy Now!, Ann Jones.

>

> ANN JONES: Thank you.

>

> AMY GOODMAN: Ann, first start by talking about what you

last saw in

> Afghanistan when you were thereyou're embedded in

Afghan communities,

> you're embedded in the US troopsand this latest news of

the so-called

> peace council that President Karzai has established.

>

> ANN JONES: Well, I think it's typical of what has

happened, from the

> beginning, in the exclusion of women. Women have fought

very valiantly

> to be included in peace processes, and they have gone

repeatedly to

> Karzai. And he has made promises over and over again,

but he's always

> reneged on his promises to include them in various

councils. He has

> been instrumental in implementing legislation that

really deprives

> women of rights that they are guaranteed under the

constitution. And

> to have six women on this council is just another, you

know, finger

> poke in the eye. It's a complete incident of tokenism.

And to have

> someone like Sayyaf on the council, who, as head of the

Wolesi Jurga,

> the lower house of the Parliament, is one of the chief

intimidators of

> women, is a complete insult to women.

>

> JUAN GONZALEZ: Well, one of the things that you've

mentioned in some

> of your writings, you said in one article, "Our

government complains

> that the Karzai administration is corrupt, but the

greater

> problemnever mentionedis that it is fundamentalist.

The cabinet,

> courts and Parliament are all largely controlled by men

who differ

> from the Taliban chiefly in their choice of turbans."

>

> ANN JONES: Yes, that's exactly right. And, of course,

these are the

> men that the United States put in power at the Bonn

conference. They

> were our allies all through that proxy war against the

Soviets. Our

> thinking in those old days was that any devout religious

people must

> be good allies in the fight against what we used to call

"godless

> communism." So we allied ourselves with completely the

wrong people,

> and we've stuck with them all the way through. And we

installed them

> as the government that we now support. And it partlyI

think it

> largely explains the bind that we're in now, because

we're supporting

> a government that actually stands in opposition to many

of the

> principles we pretend to be supporting.

>

> JUAN GONZALEZ: And what is the impact of this at the

village or town

> level amongon the Afghan people, in the coverage that

you've done

> over the last few years?

>

> ANN JONES: Well, in fact, change has not reached most of

the villages,

> and the Karzai government does not extend much outside

the capital.

> So, what is felt in outlying areas is more the impact of

the presence

> of foreign troops in many parts of the country. And as

you know,

> thousands upon thousands have been displaced and are

living as

> internal refugees.

>

> AMY GOODMAN: Your experience embedded in the troops in

Afghanistan,

> what it was like?

>

> ANN JONES: I was embedded in thein Kunar province on

the Pakistan

> border, the area in which so much trouble is occurring

today and in

> the last few days. And at that time, probably the most

important thing

> I learned from the commander was that he was not

fighting a war of

> counterinsurgency, as we say we are doing. He was

fighting

> conventional war, because he was being hit by a

surprising force

> coming over from Pakistan. He had served on that border

six years ago

> and never expected to face the kind of opposition he was

facing last

> summer. He had lost many men in the first weeks that he

was there.

> Meanwhile, all the public policy and press attention was

on the south,

> on Kandahar, where the US was organizing for this great

push. And the

> east was totally neglected. And as we see now, that's

where this

> problem is growing.

>

> JUAN GONZALEZ: And in your new book, War Is Not Over

When It's Over,

> what do you mean in terms of the title and what you

attempted to tell

> in terms of various wars that the United States has been

involved in?

>

> ANN JONES: What I'm trying to suggest is that war is not

what we think

> it is, when we hear all these reports about soldiers and

generals and

> strategies. War includes the whole population. War is

fought on

> civilian ground. And in all modern wars, civilians are

the primary

> casualties of war, much more so than soldiers. And we

ignore that

> completely.

> Also, war is a guy thing. Men fight with each other.

Then they sit

> down at the table, negotiate some kind of power sharing

agreement, and

> go on jockeying for that power relationship as they rule

the country.

> But all the while, they go on raping, murdering,

displacing women and

> children, so that when men end war and say, "Now we have

peace," war

> is not over for women. The war against women goes on, to

such an

> extent that today, if you look at the demographics, we

are short 60

> million women in this world who have been killed and

lost in war.

>

> AMY GOODMAN: Give us examples in the different places

you have covered.

>

> ANN JONES: Well, for example, the Congo, which is very

much in the

> news now, where mass rape has been used as a technique

of war for

> years now, for a decade or more. And thousands of women

are raped over

> and over again, gang raped, not merely to persecute the

women, but to

> disrupt families, to disrupt villages, to displace whole

populations,

> so that the men who are running the war have free access

to the

> natural resources, the stuff that goes into our cell

phones and

> computers, and that pays for their wars. So women pay

the highest

> price in that war.

>

> JUAN GONZALEZ: I'd like to ask you about one woman that

became the

> front page of Time magazine in August, Bibi Aisha, the

young Afghan

> woman who was pictured, her face mutilated, with the

headline "What

> Happens if We Leave Afghanistan." You've been

particularly critical of

> that story and how the media have manipulated it. Could

you talk about

> that?

>

> ANN JONES: I was very concerned about the exploitation

of that

> personal family tragedy in order to make a case for

keeping American

> troops in Afghanistan and continuing this war, in which

so many

> Afghans have suffered. Bibi Aisha's case was not

uncommon. Her

> particular mutilation has been her nose and ears being

cut off. There

> are four cases of it reported this year by the Afghan

Independent

> Human Rights Commission. This, after Americans have been

protecting

> Afghan women for eight or nine years in Afghanistan.

This happens to

> be the way some Pashtun families treat women in order to

keep them in

> servitude to the family. We are not going to change that

by the

> presence of troops, and we're not going to stop it by

the presence of

> troops.

>

> AMY GOODMAN: Can you tell us her story, though, and how

you feel it

> was misrepresented, in being on the cover, Time's case

for why the US

> is there?

>

> ANN JONES: Mm-hmm. Bibi Aisha ran away from her parents-

in-law's

> house. Her husband was absent elsewhere in doing some

kind of work or

> looking for work. She was treated as a servant and

physically abused

> all the time. She ran away. Her father-in-law caught up

with her and

> did this mutilation. The Time story amplifies that,

saying it was done

> under orders by Taliban commanders and so on. That is

not the story I

> heard from Bibi Aisha when I talked with her. But

>

> JUAN GONZALEZ: And you spoke to her before this Time

story had ever come out.

>

> ANN JONES: I spoke to her several weeks before, and

other journalists

> have spoken to her, as well, and have reported the

mutilation, but not

> this supposed instruction of the Taliban to do this. So

I think the

> story changed in some way. How that happened, I don't

know. This young

> woman was deeply traumatized, and we know that people in

that

> circumstance have selective memory or repressed memory,

and maybe it

> changed later. I don't know. But my quarrel is with the

news media

> that took that personal tragedy and used it for this

political

> manipulation. And even the story in that issue of Time

about what's

> going on in Afghanistan today was much more nuanced and

was warning

> against the possibility of women being sold out in

negotiations with

> the Taliban. That is a very real concern that we need to

be

> addressing, and that was completely ignored in the

attention paid to

> this particular horrifying photo.

>

> AMY GOODMAN: We're talking to Ann Jones. She has a new

book; it's

> called War Is Not Over When It's Over: Women Speak Out

from the Ruins

> of War. Can you talk about your camera project, giving

cameras to

> women to document war and the effects of it on their

lives?

>

> ANN JONES: Yes. Working with the International Rescue

Committee, we

> gave digital cameras to women and asked them to

photograph the

> blessings and the problems in their lives. It was really

a project to

> encourage them to begin to articulate their own

situation and speak up

> in their own villages and communities on behalf of their

own

> interests. And the women were amazing. They did

fantastic work. They

> spoke up very loudly in their own interests.

> And what they gave us, really, was blueprints for peace.

What they

> addressed were the problems of getting safe water,

getting safe access

> to their fields to work, getting education for their

children, getting

> healthcare, getting places for community members to

meet. In other

> words, the women are concerned about the future of their

families and

> their communities living a peaceful life. And this, it

seemed to me,

> was such important support for what the UN has been

saying for a

> decade now, that you will not get durable peace anywhere

in the world

> in the aftermath of conflict unless women are involved

every step of

> the way. And that's exactly what we are not seeing in

Afghanistan

> today.

>

> JUAN GONZALEZ: Well, you've been going back and forth

now since 2002

> to Afghanistan, so you've seen the war when it was

George Bush's war

> and now when it is Barack Obama's war. Have you seen any

difference in

> the way the war is being carried out on the ground?

>

> ANN JONES: Well, now American troops are much more

involved, of

> course, because, as we know, George Bush neglected the

Afghan war,

> busying himself elsewhere. So, American troops are much

more in

> evidence now, much more active, causing far more

civilian casualties.

> And since the Obama surge, if we can call it that, the

civilian

> casualties have gone up about 25 percent. Six thousand

were killed

> last year. The number is likely to be higher now.

Thousands more have

> been displaced, so that I think the civilian population

is suffering

> perhaps even more now than they did during the Bush

years. And

> certainly more and more Afghans outside the capital are

saying that

> conditions are worse for them now than they were before.

Within the

> capital, there is still an island of relative security,

although it's

> really a fortified city now, so that many within the

city are still

> arguing for the presence of American troops to protect

them. But I

> think when you go outside the city, you get a very

different story.

>

> AMY GOODMAN: Ann Jones, we want to thank you very much

for being with

> us, writer and photographer. Her new book is called War

Is Not Over

> When It's Over: Women Speak Out from the Ruins of War.

>

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