The MJS of Côte-d’Or asks in particular “that the maximum number of humanitarian visas be issued to women, children and men wishing to leave the country”.
Communiqué of the Young Socialist Movement of Côte-d’Or:
Dramatic situation in Afghanistan:
from words to deeds
We have all seen these difficult and implausible images, where women, men, children try to flee their country now in the hands of an obscurantist power.
An obscurantist power, a power of religious extremists close to Al-Qaeda showing what it was capable of: opposed to women’s rights, opposed to women’s work, opposed to the education of young girls, opposed to the rights of homosexuals. The Taliban regime is the denial of all human rights and the submission of minorities.
This Monday August 16, François Rebsamen, mayor of Dijon and president of Dijon metropolis reaffirmed, as he was able to do in the past, our values of solidarity with these families fleeing the war.
The movement of young socialists of the Côte-d’Or affirms its total solidarity with the Afghan people who, as in the past, find themselves caught in a pincer movement by the Taliban and the disastrous ideology that results from it.
The international community must live up to this sad event. We want as many humanitarian visas as possible to be issued to women, children and men wishing to leave the country.
The Afghan people, after the departure of their President and the abandonment of their army, do not have the necessary means to actively fight against the barbarism of radical Islamism.
We cannot bring ourselves to see thousands of lives reduced to nothing by the very act of a barbaric and rigorous organization.
It is the duty of Western countries to find in consensus a dignified political solution to get the Afghan people out of this doldrums.
A phrase from Albert Camus comes to mind when faced with this tragedy “When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside but it is not to hear from it”.
What is happening in Afghanistan is the very demonstration that the peace and freedom of a people are never really acquired, we owe it to ourselves to protect what brings us all together, democracy and peace.
Movement of young socialists of the Côte-d’Or
5 Rue Henri Baudot, 21000 Dijon
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