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Date: 10 Oct 1997
Time: 15:47:18
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Meena the Woman who is shining on the Top of
Afghan Freedom Struggle
Sister Meena was bon on 1957 in Kabul. During her school time, Kabul and other first political experiences which later on got more and more matured. To fight for the freedom and prosperity of our people became such a sacred ideal to her that she left the university to devote her as a professional struggler to organize the women - folk. She was of the opinion that our women are like sleeping lions who when awaked and move, would play a tremendous role in any Afghan social revolution. But, in her view the women without their own organization will have nothing. Therefore in 1977 she established RAWA as the first patriotic women's organization. Meena was one of the first revolutionary women who knew deeply and scientifically about the treacherous nature of Parcham Khad Khalq imperialistic nature of the soviet Union before its invasion into Afghanistan. After the occupation, Meena placed independence struggle at the top of RAWA's action program. She started to experience her hardest fighting time. Meena was known to the enemy and under the fascist persecution of Soviets and their lackeys, she was travelling at the risk of her very life to propagate anti - occupation ideas among the women and organize them. To give her wholly to political work, she had deprived her from visiting her family and dear ones. In 1981, she published "Payam -e -Zan" (The Message of Women) from Kabul. Through this and numerous leaflets she wrote about the vital significance of independence, democracy and social justice for Afghanistan and the meaning of real emancipation of the women in particular In the course of her years struggle, she had rightly concluded that: "fundamentalists are also sworn enemies of our people. They re making trouble In our anti - Russian resistance. I a word, to fight against the Russian aggressors is inseparable from struggle against the fundamentalists. Nevertheless for the time being we should give priority to the former."
In the end of 1981, Meena was invited by the government of France as representative or Afghan resistance to participate in the Congress of French Socialist Party. There, she was unprecedentedly lauded. When she was waving V signal and the participants were cheering, the Soviet delegation headed by Boris Ponamaryev were forced to leave the Congress, After France, she took the opportunity to pay visit to several other European countries and meet their distinguished personalities.
In spite of her preoccupation in leading RAWA inside the country, she succeeded to set up a hospital,, a nursing course, a women working place and tow schools in Quetta for the benefit of women refugee.
Although the KGB, KHAD and the fanatic parties made a lot of shameless propaganda against RAWA and Meena herself however, RAWA gained ever increasing credibility and undeniable entity as the sole women’s resistance organisation in the political arena of Afghanistan.
All this couldn't but provoked wild wrath of the KGB and fundamentalists, They had already found their most militant and unvanquished enemy in Meena personality.
At last, in Feb. 4th 1987, the KGB agents and their fundamentalist accomplices shed the blood of Meena and her tow aides, Thus the filthy enemies ecstatically danced to the tune of the Soviets.
Martyrdom of Meena was the typical embodiment of her own inspiring words: "Now that our beloved motherland has been trampled by the Russian invaders, it is up to us to fight even to sacrifice our very lives for Afghanistan and thus try to set the examples of Malalais and Jean de arcs far more glorious. "And Meena has placed herself on the top of our liberation movement. Her legend will go far beyond the boundaries o Afghanistan.
Although Meena has been eliminated physically but the path crimsoned with her innocent blood, would be firmly followed by her followers and all freedom - loving Afghan women.
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