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.
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>
> 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 there—you're embedded in Afghan communities,
> you're embedded in the US troops—and 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
> problem—never mentioned—is 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 partly—I 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 among—on 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 the—in 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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