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We Are One Human
Greenfuse speaks with Afghanistan refugees.
Mahmood Ahmad Kahn is 22 years old, he and
his 17 year old brother Naveed Kahn grew up in
Kandahar, Afghanistan, in the mountains of gold.
Once they had a thriving community, and their
family did very well dealing in textiles on a pilot
scale at their own shop. Naveed studies Biology
and Mahmood graduated from his studies a cou-
ple years ago. For the past few years the Khan
family has been living as U.S. Terror refugees
along with 1 million war refugees in their camp
alone on the border between Afghanistan and
Pakistan. Even though they are highly educated
and self-sufficient, for Naveed and Mahmood,
there is little opportunity to escape war and the
poverty that comes along with being a refugee of
war. They are subsisting on the very bare survival
essentials; one meal per day, small rations of un-
clean water, some electricity, and enough spotty
internet to communicate with Greenfuse.
Shakti: Can you speak about where are you from?
Naveed Kahn: We belong to the province Kanda-
har, but we are in refuge on the Border near Paki-
stan now. It is quite tough to live over here, not
like it seems for other people, in films or anywhere
else in the world; we live very hard over here- too
much struggle. We eat just once a day. We do not
have water to drink really, it is very far away and
so there is also poor hygiene.
S- Can you explain why you have been in refuge
for the past few years?
Mahmood Ahmad Kahn: I am a refugee for 3
years, because of many militaries, about 52, in-
vading my country starting in 2002 after 9/11, but
mostly the US Military and the ongoing terror we
faced. There are thousand of stories from Afghani-
stan which will make you cry, I can't explain in
words how they rule and how they kill the inno-
cent children and people of our country.
S: Can you please speak more about what it is like
in Afghanistan and where you are now?
M: Today your American soldiers are here in our
country, and many times 500 hundred innocent
people are killed. There are one million refugees
on the boarder near Pakistan, mostly from Af-
ghanistan. Everyone has the same problem that I
had, forcing them to leave their homeland, and
that is because of US military terror and attacks.
They bomb entire villages, all of people die in
whole village, no one left alive to tell the story.
S: Bombing entire villages? 500 people killed!? Is
this common?
N: Yes, yes they are bombing us, it is very
common, theyre striking poor people in vil-
lages, more than 500 innocent peoples are
killed some days.
S: Who are they specifically?
M: U.S. Military mostly- plus Afghani Military, and
a branch of Afghani Military, the three are united,
to make our culture run out. They are just making
a genocide. Here we are totally against U.S. Mili-
tary because they do every thing wrong that one
can think of. They enter homes without permission
and when they see any girl, they take her with
them by force, then she cries, we all cry for her,
too leave her, she is our sister or our mother. They
beat them, rape many girls.
S: Has anything like this ever happened to you?
M: Yes, one day the U.S. Military came to our vil-
lage where there was a marriage for my cousin.
The military entered our home forcefully. They said
we want to take this girl with us whose marriage is
today. She cried, shouted to leave and they killed
her in front of the family. I cry, is this humanity,
justice? Is this democracy?
S: Why do you think the U.S. military is in Afghani-
stan? What does the U.S. military do there?
N: Their interests have changed, theyre shifting
away from Afghanistan, going for Iraq, libya, Syria,
etc. now. The military is just here screwing off and
restricting areas
M: They have been here since 2002, after 9/11,
they are just collecting checks, taking resources
from UN, doing nothing but collecting international
attention and aid.You know better than me the
U.S. government is a multi-billion dollar super
power, with a huge amount of weapons, military,
lies, money. They want to destroy all of us, de-
stroy everything. They have changed the whole
life of Afghanistan.
S: What are they getting from Afghanistan? Why
do you think they are there? Is there a resource?
N: you can search on Google Map, Afghanistan is
full of every kind of precious stones, every kind of
precious resources, Afghanistan, is known as
mountain of gold, these dusty mountains are full
of gold.
S: Do you think the military is exploiting the land
for resources?
N: Yes yes of course, the US military is just a su-
per power which is destroying our land, our cul-
ture, and getting our religion very wrong. I myself
have been the victim of this activity many times.
S: Why do you think Americans misinterpret your
culture?
N: It is hard to understand because we Muslims
believe in peace. We are in search of peace, we
do not want any water, any food, we dont want
luxurious life, we just want to be humble and live
peacefully.
S: Here it is unfortunately very common for main-
stream media and now our very government offi-
cials, to try to convince Americans that Muslims
are to be feared, that the religion says you want to
kill all Americans. Why do you think they say such
negative things about Islam?
M: Do not judge Islam by the actions of Muslims.
Islam is not what they do, but what they are sup-
posed to do. Our Islam has taught us that no hu-
man is superior to another. White has no superior-
ity to black and black has no superiority to white
it, male is in need of women and women is in need
of men. Koran tells us the why and how to spend
life, what to do in this world and what we have
come here for. The truth is that Muslims NEVER
want to kill any human, not just Americans. Our
religion teaches us that the killer of one human is
the killer of whole humanity, so it's the propa-
ganda of media that produces hate between Mus-
lims and non-Muslims.
S: Do you want to go back home? What are your
plans?
N: Making the decision to be home is really hard,
you can pay a lot for that if you are inside of Tali-
ban or American military. But it is very hard to stay
neutral. It is easy to be confused. Some say Tali-
ban is on our side, some say Americans are on
our side, so we are just very confused on whom to
give our strength to. We are in two minds, you
know? Thinking what to do, and what not to do,
and its really hard to decide in our position. It is do
or die,
between the US military side or Taliban side, it
is a situation of do or die. It is quite clear if you
join Taliban, U.S. military come in 2 days (to kill
them). If you join on side of American you may
survive 2 days, but then they kill your family,
your crop, they will do everything that is possi-
ble to damage you in every way. They are forc-
ing it on us from both sides. They are very con-
vincing, they both have so many arguments to
convince you of their own agenda and how we
can help stop the violence.
S: What is the solution to this unending war?
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N: Not war, ha. You will never change anything
with war, if you kill 1 Taliban, 10 more will
come, and in contrast if you kill 1 American
1000 more will come. Our humble demand is
only peace; we dont want anything other than
peace. Peace is the only way to finish these wars,
not by weapons, not by military, not by agenda,
you cant bring peace with war, it doesnt work
that way. We just have to sit at the table and talk.
S: How as Americans can we help get our leaders
to the table? We literally have war manufactures,,
contractors, financiers, mainstream media, and
extractive energy conglomerates, who literally run
the country here for their own gains.
N: It is really quite a task to be performed yes, it is
difficult to make them understand, because they
are being brainwashed, like Donald Trump you can
never do anything to convince him of anything
So how can we make peace... It is really difficult
task to be performed, Donald Trump, has grown
up in this US society, and he is brainwashed, and
so he can never bring any solution to this very
problem that is in Afghanistan.
S: how do you feel about Trump being elected
president and the uprisings world wide?
M: I am also with you against Trumps govern-
ment. But I am not in support of previous govern-
ments like Obama, Bush etc. because they killed
all of our family, children, women, they destroyed
our whole country, our everything they destroyed.
S: What would you say to US government and
Donald Trump if you could?
N: I would tell them Afghanistan belongs to us,
this is our country; leave it to us, any problem that
is in Afghanistan, we can solve in a better way. We
have many traditional systems we can use to
overcome all of the issues, fights, war etc. I mean
who the hell are you Donald, to come in from far
away, America is 11k miles, from us if I am not
wrong, and they are coming here to help us in Af-
ghanistan!? (Theyeruptinlaughter) So please
Donald Trump leave, dont come, leave us alone
here. If you leave us alone, all our problems will be
easily solved in 2 years.
S: If you could say anything to the U.S. Military
what would it be?
M: I want to ask US Military to please leave our
home, leave us alone, we can take care of our-
selves, we do not need help. I want to ask what
have we done wrong that you are treating us as
animals? You are killing children, parents, women,
WHY? Arent we human?
S: Do you want to say anything to the American
people?
M: Yes:
We will be also on side of you, to do
something for humanity, to make
people understand that we are one
human, one body. We must act and
be as a brothers and sister
-Exclusive interview for Greenfuse
by Shakti