Written by: Ahmad Bahar Chopaan
Translated by: Mohammad Amin Wahidi
It seems that the sun of democracy in Afghanistan is to be eclipsed in the transactions between Karzai, his supporters and the Taliban!
It is not too late after when Dr. Zahir Tanin¹ has mentioned in one of his interview that “Karzai is trying to Afghanize the democracy” and now as a result we are seeing the Afghanization of democracy.
In an Afghanized democracy, democracy is totally changed from its original essence, the same as all other things, when Afghanized, whether take the antonym meaning or totally lose the meaning.
Indeed it is absurd to try to change the meaning of democracy. In democracy it is not important how to empower a person to govern, but more important is how to dethrone or dismiss a person on power when showed to be insufficient for the mandate.
As it seems, it wouldn’t be easy to dethrone our governing President in an Afghanized democracy.
The Afghanized democracy has many exceptions; in its acme, it spurns the laws including the mother law the national constitution, and after seven years of prank war against the terrorism, it appears on a dinner table of Arab Sheiks by the name of an Inter - Afghan peace to embrace Mullah Omar.
The Afghanized democracy makes brotherhood between Arab Osama Bin Laden, Pakistani Baitullah Mahsood and Afghan Mullah Omar to mobilize them against the Afghans who suffering their politicians for years and years.
The Afghan Democracy is totally unaccustomed to the words “dēmos” and “kratos” the original roots of the word which are too old for it now.
In this Afghanized democracy there is a new interpretation; what the people want to say, they can say but what Karzai want to do, he does it.
The Afghan democracy is like the dream of a mute man who wants to relate it to a group of deaf people.
Translated by: Mohammad Amin Wahidi
It seems that the sun of democracy in Afghanistan is to be eclipsed in the transactions between Karzai, his supporters and the Taliban!
It is not too late after when Dr. Zahir Tanin¹ has mentioned in one of his interview that “Karzai is trying to Afghanize the democracy” and now as a result we are seeing the Afghanization of democracy.
In an Afghanized democracy, democracy is totally changed from its original essence, the same as all other things, when Afghanized, whether take the antonym meaning or totally lose the meaning.
Indeed it is absurd to try to change the meaning of democracy. In democracy it is not important how to empower a person to govern, but more important is how to dethrone or dismiss a person on power when showed to be insufficient for the mandate.
As it seems, it wouldn’t be easy to dethrone our governing President in an Afghanized democracy.
The Afghanized democracy has many exceptions; in its acme, it spurns the laws including the mother law the national constitution, and after seven years of prank war against the terrorism, it appears on a dinner table of Arab Sheiks by the name of an Inter - Afghan peace to embrace Mullah Omar.
The Afghanized democracy makes brotherhood between Arab Osama Bin Laden, Pakistani Baitullah Mahsood and Afghan Mullah Omar to mobilize them against the Afghans who suffering their politicians for years and years.
The Afghan Democracy is totally unaccustomed to the words “dēmos” and “kratos” the original roots of the word which are too old for it now.
In this Afghanized democracy there is a new interpretation; what the people want to say, they can say but what Karzai want to do, he does it.
The Afghan democracy is like the dream of a mute man who wants to relate it to a group of deaf people.
The laws are only written pieces of paper and freedom of speech is nothing except a cheap joke because the minister of information and culture has taken oath to destroy the culture.
In the Afghan democracy the students are not allowed to use their mother tongue as a communication tool in their daily lives and if someone does so, they are being charged with imprisonment; if they want to use the transcript of their mother tongue on the official sign boards, the Afghan police is allowed to use violence against them, torture them and detain them, because it is Afghan democracy.
In the Afghan democracy, president’s brother can act as the foreign minister and can represent the government in secret negotiations with the Taliban and the Saudi Arabian, because first he is a member of the president family, secondly the Afghan democracy gives his this authority.
In the Afghan democracy, forced displacement of ethnics, and looting their possessions is allowed not only with the intervention of the government but with the permission and support of the government and there is no charged for subsequences of human rights violations.
The Afghanized democracy removes the additional columns and rows of the national ID cards that are for the ethnic identity of the ethnics to merge them into one nation, the Afghan nation, the is only for the Pashtoons!
As said by Dr. Sorosh, “democracy is a device to elect, criticize and dismiss the sovereigns” and the real democracy is too distant from the current Afghanized democracy.
In the Afghan democracy criticizing the governing team is not possible, and if some one does so, his head is wanted for rewards!
In this situation it is definitely too far to expect procedural dismissal of an insufficient president as Karzai who has confessed in one of his speeches that he has lately has tasted the flavor of the power and he would not easily leave it.
As a big lie it is no more tolerable to have such a fake democracy, it is not the cure we were looking for our pains.
Whether the real democracy would be applied in the country that would give the nation a chance to decide about electing , criticizing or even dismissal of their leader in case of insufficiency or otherwise as an alternative we should replace another system in a way that would realize our expectations.
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