US-Taliban peace deal don’t protect rights of Afghan people: European think-tank to UN

Mar 06, 2020

Geneva (Switzerland), Mar 06 (ANI): The recently published ‘Afghanistan Papers’ confirmed that the United States’ two decade-long war in Afghanistan was a failure from the onset, stated Soana Deunier, a Research Analyst at the European Foundation for South Asian Studies during her intervention at the 43rd Session of UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. “Now the US, in its quest to save face, signed a so-called peace deal with the Taliban that only satisfies the interests of both these parties without securing the protection of the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Afghan people”, said Soana. Expecting peace from the Taliban and its allies, Al-Qaeda, the Haqqani network, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed and their benefactor, the Pakistani Military Establishment, while side-lining the Afghan government will go down in history as a momentous blunder on behalf of the international community Let the council recall that the Taliban was accountable for 47 percent of the civilian casualties recorded by the UN last year alone,” said Soana Deunier. “Are we really entrusting social healing, peace and stability to the Taliban? This so-called peace deal legitimizes terrorism and leaves the Afghan people at the mercy of merchants of death and destruction?,” she concluded.