Suicide Attack Kills Burhan-ul-den Rabbani

It is 9/20/2011, midnight in South Korea. I’m back from the library and as I open my facebook page, I see the news saying that Afghanistan Head of High Peace Council, former President Burhan-ul-den Rabbai, who had been tasked with trying to negotiate a political end to the war but has faced total failures was killed earlier today 

Burhan-ul-den Rabbaini 'with the turban'

The media says his home is in Kabul’s heavily guarded diplomatic enclave, and the attack came just a week after a 20-hour siege at the edge of the area sometimes known as the ‘Green Zone’.

Rabbani has been killed, “Mohammad Zaher, head of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Kabul Police, has told the media”. It has happened just a few hours ago and so far there is no further information about it.

Rabbani was formerly leader of a powerful Mujaheddin party during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s and sevred as president in the 1990s when Mujaheddin factions waged war for control of the country after the Soviet withdrawal. During him time, before 2001, he was involved in all the tribal wars in the country leading his own political party ‘Afghanistan's Islamic Society’

The assassination happens just a week after a 20-hour gun and grenade attack that on Kabul’s diplomatic enclave by insurgents, and three suicide bomb attacks on other parts of the city together the longest-lasting and most wide-ranging assault on the city. (my earlier post ‘Jan Ali’ is about the previous attack in this area)..... 

As this news spreads around, people might have different discussions regarding it. Some might be somehow depressed while some others might have better feelings about it since Rabbani was one of the coordinators of some of the wars in between the ethnic groups back in late 90s after his presidency!

But no matter what people's ideas might be, even if it is not a bad news in particular, in general it is a terrifying news for all the residents of the country as Taliban are invading in the very center of Kabul city lately.

Jan Ali dies to save lives but no one saves his kids’ lives

--Recent clash killed 15 innocents and wounded 30, and Karzai paid condolences to some families who lost their members but not to all. Why not to all? It is Afghanistan--

It is past midnight now and I started to write this short not in this page as I saw this picture uploaded by a friend on Facebook.

Below is the photo of Jan Ali on his funeral day in his home. He as a loyal Hazara policeman endangered his life in the recent clash in Kabul to save others’, and finally did. His old father is standing with Ali’s kids crying for Ali Jan with not making any noise ‘as heard from a friend’. What is extremely unfair is that the dogmatic government pays deep condolences to the family of another policeman who was also killed with Ali Jan at the same battle, but not to Jan Ali’s family. Why? Well, that is how it is. The other man might be either someone from a major ethnic group in the country or he has someone in a higher position in the ‘jangly’ government of Afghanistan.

Ali's father, and his kids 

It  makes me feel insomniac for the night thinking and knowing that things in my country go horribly against the rules of human societies, while people in the world live their 21^st Century Lives, living as humanly peaceful and as best as they can.

Not because I’m an Afghan, but because I am a human being, I don’t feel comfortable knowing that Jan Ali and hundred similar men endanger their lives to serve others, and finally get killed by some non-human Talib, and the government officials don’t even send a message of sympathy to their wives and kids.

Jan Ali's kids

I think it is time for Afghanistan to either be removed from the map of the world ‘by God knows what power’ or corrected and things to get changed soon! This unbearable situation in general for most of the people but in particular for minorities like Hazaras and Uzbeks has been on-going ever since the first battles started decades ago. After 2001 people were hoping that things would change wholly. Well, they have but not really! I believe this dirty and grim war is still going on and off. The only difference is that it used to be done in groups, but now, in the worst way by some fanatic extremist zealous Taliban who have been addressed as ‘our angry brothers’ by the president of the country, Karzai, in press conferences! 




You are paid to stop the bullet
It's soldier's job, they say
So, you stop your bullet
And then they stop your pay............<E. Y. Harburg Quotes>