06.02.2020
Dear friends and comrades,
We, the internationalist, feminist organization „Gemeinsam Kämpfen“ („Let‘s fight together“) send you the warmest greetings to your demonstration in commemoration of Meena.
We are very happy that our voice could travel all the way to this event in Afghanistan. We are honoured to take part in the commemoration of a woman who was dedicated to the fight for the freedom of women.
We see in Meena a woman who was very determined to live a life as someone who resisted any oppression. In a very confident and fearless way, she was raising her voice and taking action against soviet occupation and fundamentalism. With this, she was active in the freedom of all Afghan people through which she devoted herself especially to the freedom of women.
Meena was murdered, like many other women who are resisting oppression and the roles set out for them. She was murdered by puppets of the russian occupation, and the loss of a comrade like Meena is extremely painful.
But they couldn‘t kill her lovely and courageous spirit, and we see how it stays alive with RAWA. The way RAWA is fighting imperialist power interests, war, fundamentalism and its effects on women almost 40 years after Meena‘s death is proof of this. Meena‘s spirit is spreading across the world through our connections as people who fight against patriarchy, imperialism, fascism and fundamentalism beyond borders.
Strong and courageous women are the biggest threat for the patriarchal system. We share the pain and anger about the killing of Meena and other women like Sakine Cansiz, Marielle Franco, Berta Carceres, Hevrin Khalef and our comrade Sarah Handelmann.
Patriarchy has many faces. But our resistance has many faces too, and it gives us a lot of strength to stand together in this fight.
We see how also the german gouvernment plays a role in the war in your country. They say they would make it more stable, but in reality they are making the region and communities more accessible to their power interests and capitalist expoitation. They are saying that now your country is secure. But in truth, they are hiding the fact that after all these years of sending german soldiers, the situation is actually worse – in particular, for women. With this argument, they are deporting hundreds of people back to Afghanistan.
As an internationalist feminist organization, we are standing against all of this – against german weapon exports, the european border politics and imperialist power interest.
We stand by you in this arduous but beautiful struggle and are happy to unite to make our liberation an alternative to the capitalist and patriarcal system.