Afghanistan: More Pro-democracy Demonstrations

[I AM SPARTACUS]

http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/65d654bd5cbae01f85256d640057b62b?OpenDocument

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KABUL, 15 July (IRIN) - Afghans in the capital Kabul have again been exercising their right to protest. Chanting pro-democracy slogans, around a hundred people marched through the city on Tuesday morning. The demonstrators called for the implementation of the Bonn agreement - a road map for Afghanistan's peaceful development - and urged the Afghan government not to bow to extremists.
"We don't want fundamentalism," one participant told IRIN. Others said they wanted a constitution based on democracy and the rule of law.

The crowd also called for equal rights for men and women. "For survival and restoration of women's rights the international community and Afghan government defeated the Taliban regime, but unfortunately women are still deprived of their participation in government, and political development is limited," Freba Charkhi, a member of the Freedom and Democracy Movement of Afghanistan, told IRIN.
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[lkinsale]

1. We've all forgotten Afghanistan

I for one would like to see some of the Dem candidates (including my fave, Graham) show some interest in encouraging and securing the situation in Afghanistan. There they are, protesting against fundamentalism and in support of women's rights, trying their hearts out to get where we want them to go, and we just diddle and hum and ho and yawn. Pisses me off.

FINISH THE JOB.