Written by: Colonel Shamim
After the collapse of the republic, although the existing parties in Afghanistan were dissolved due to their poor reputation and lack of usefulness to the Afghan people, outside of Afghanistan, notorious warlords and other fugitives created new parties and councils every day under flashy but hollow names.
The Resistance Council was one of these councils, formed after the collapse of the republic with the aim of uniting opponents of the new government. However, not only did it fail to reduce disagreements, but the circle of its members is also shrinking more each day.
As the name suggests, this council announced its presence under the slogan “Saving Afghanistan,” but it is unclear what these individuals mean by saving Afghanistan?! What do they truly want to save Afghanistan from? From the independence that was prepared after twenty years of occupation, or from the security that was achieved in this land after many years? Or perhaps they want to save Afghanistan and its suffering people from the peaceful days and nights they are experiencing and return them to the same dark and bitter nights of the republic?
However, as is clear to everyone, the scope of this council’s activities, like those of the other colorful fugitive parties, is limited to online meetings and the issuance of statements and declarations. Accordingly, whenever something happens, they publish statements with large but hollow words in order to remind themselves of their limited number of deceived followers and announce their presence.
In the latest case, the mentioned council reacted to public protests in Iran and set guidelines for the Iranian government and people. Among the lines of this declaration, what catches the reader’s attention the most is the section that states: “The people of Afghanistan have experienced foreign interventions; these interventions bring neither stability nor peace, but deepen the crisis.”
The question now is why Afghanistan became a stage for foreign interventions. Isn’t it true that these very people and their fellow countrymen in other countries tore their throats and asked foreign powers to invade Afghanistan? Wasn’t it Ahmad Shah Massoud who, in the European Parliament, called Afghanistan a haven for terrorists solely to serve his own interests and those of a few other notorious figures, warning the world that if they didn’t attack Afghanistan, they would regret it?
Yes! These were the same people who stood shoulder to shoulder with foreigners from the beginning of the occupation of Afghanistan until its last day, showing no respect for their own sacred beliefs and not sparing the lives of their own people. In addition, each of them was also serving a foreign country to secure their own interests; one took orders from the east and the other from the west.
If the people of Afghanistan tasted the bitter taste of foreign interventions, it was solely due to the presence of such traitors; interventions that kept the people of this land entangled in a multitude of problems and challenges for years, from insecurity and corruption to theft, murder, looting, and plundering – issues in which the fingerprints of these same individuals were visible in most cases, as their interests were served thru such means.
Undoubtedly, as the whole world knows, the responsibility for all the suffering and calamities that occurred during the power-seeking era of these warlords rests on their shoulders alone, not on anyone else’s. But why they still refuse to accept responsibility for their mistakes, it must be said that if they don’t, even the few people who still surround them will leave, and they will join the dustbin of history sooner than they think.
How can we expect such people to take responsibility for their wrongdoings toward the Afghan people, when they are still working day and night to serve foreigners and return to this country under their shadow, once again turning the joy and happiness of this nation into blood?
But now they won’t see a return to Afghanistan even in their darkest dreams, let alone in reality, because the people of Afghanistan have recognized the true faces of these individuals more than ever before and even hate hearing their names, let alone their return to this country.
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