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Afghanistan - NATO: Keep the progress going

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"NATO: Keep the progress going"
How exactly bombs and guns are helping Afghan women?

When the Taliban took over Afghanistan, an ever-increasing stream of criticism of their orthodox ideology and policies directed itself at the new regime. Among numerous criticisms levelled at the regime was the allegation that the Taliban oppressed and victimized women through their orthodox interpretation of religious law and its ruthless imposition. The traditional Afghan ‘burqa’ became a symbol of oppression and pictures of women being beaten by the Taliban in public for offences were telecast all across the globe. On September 22 2001, CNN aired the documentary ‘Beneath the Veil’, which claimed an audience of five million Americans, building revulsion in their minds against burqa-clad women being beaten
up.

Following the US-aided fall of the Taliban, international organizations, Human Rights NGOs rallied to the assistance of women, ‘bolstered up by media images of women in burqas, the
full-body veil.

According to the Communique of the Revolutionary Association for Women in Afghanistan on December 10, 2007, “The United States and its allies tried to legitimize their military occupation of Afghanistan under the banner of ‘bringing freedom and democracy to the Afghan people.” The same organization, in its March 2008 Communique states, “After the United States and its allies invaded Afghanistan seven years ago, they misleadingly claimed to bring peace and democracy and to liberate Afghan women from the bleeding fetters of the Taliban…”

Targeted violence against female public officials, dismal healthcare and desperate poverty make Afghanistan the world's most dangerous country in which to be born a woman, according to a global survey released in June 2011. We still see documentaries like "Opium Brides" a prime examples on failure to protect women rights in Afghanistan and there are thousands of more such examples which can be proven with main stream media articles which more often speaks in the interest of the invasion but still this question comes to mind that WHAT KIND OF PROGRESS IS NATO MAKING FOR AFGHAN WOMEN? and that HOW CAN BOMBS AND GUNS MAKE "PROGRESS"?