Sahra Karimi, the former director of Afghanfilm, has sharply criticized the US actions that betrayed the Afghan people into the hands of the Taliban. Her words were addressed to Karen Dekker, the acting US ambassador to Afghanistan.
Source: Sputnik Tajikistan
Sahra Karimi, who spoke at the Herat Security Talks conference in Dushanbe, said she did not believe the US because the US had left the people of Afghanistan in the hands of their enemies and murderers.
“When you say at such meetings that we have not forgotten the Afghan women, but you have forgotten them for more than a year. Now an Afghan girl does not go to school, an Afghan woman does not work. I'm really sorry. Your president always says he hates Afghanistan. You are not interested in our fate at all,” said the former head of Afghanfilm.
She added that Afghanistan is no longer a short, medium, and long-term project, and Afghan women and the younger generation of Afghanistan are now well-understood and able to express their thoughts.
“But today UNICEF is shamefully organizing a course on baking bread in Afghanistan. Our girls are not pets. Our mothers are very good at baking bread, and there is no need for someone from America or England to come and teach us how to bake bread,” said Zahra Karimi.
The former head of Afganfilm added that now about 500,000 Afghan girls cannot go to school and do science, and the US is trying to impose an anti-school regime on them.
“Please don't try to convince us that our killers have changed. But we want to negotiate with them, to talk because we love our homeland and we like to live in our homeland. If you, as a superpower, help us, help us; if not, don't make empty promises. 20 years ago you promised the same thing," she said.
Sahra Karimi was the first woman to become the director of Afghanfilm during the republic and then left Afghanistan for Ukraine after the Taliban came to power.
Her words were addressed to Karen Dekker, head of the US Embassy in Afghanistan, whose doors are still closed in Kabul. She expressed US's commitment to supporting Afghan women at the Herat Security Talks conference in Dushanbe.
