‘Afghan parliamentarian Malalai Joya, who will be 28 in April, is a slight woman who maybe reaches 5ft but against whom four assassination attempts have already been made.

This does not prevent her from speaking out, as she sees it, the candid, sometimes brutal, truth about her country, the government, its parliamentarians and the “terrible crisis” now faced by Afghanistan.

She called on Australia this week to adopt an independent policy towards her country and to listen to the wishes of the Afghan people. “They should know that bringing the Northern Alliance to power was the key to all the disasters we are experiencing today,” she said.

She told a Brisbane UNIFEM United Nations Development Fund for Women breakfast on Wednesday that after the US and its allies removed the Taliban and its al-Qaida masters, they had brought back into power the Northern Alliance, who she claimed are, “as brutal and undemocratic as the Taliban and even worse,” and that Afghan people were now hostage to, “Mediaeval men responsible for the killing of tens of thousands of innocent people”.

“The US government keeps promising not to repeat its past mistakes ... but the US is making the same mistake, she is generously supporting the fundamentalists more than ever.” All justice-loving people and human rights organisations were demanding the trial of the warlords and former Moscow puppets but they had not been brought to justice. Instead, shamelessly they were offered higher positions and found their way into the parliament with the support of the US and allies, she said. It made a mockery of the war on terror.

Although praised by the western media, the elections in Afghanistan had been a sham. Some 20 per cent of those in parliament had been accused of things such as war crimes, drug-dealing and killing. She said her country was in the hands of bloody and fundamentalist terrorists.’

Afghanistan Today ‘A Mockery Of The War On Terror’