ㅤㅤIn 2021, the Taliban in Afghanistan, which had once been driven into the mountains by the United States, quickly defeated the Afghan Islamic Republic government that had lost U.S. support, captured Kabul, and unified the entire country over the following months, eradicating all opposition forces backed by the U.S. The Taliban, after returning to power, committed a series of crimes against humanity. They first expelled women from higher education institutions, then issued successive decrees restricting and suspending women’s rights to attend middle schools, training schools, and NGOs, gradually abolishing women’s right to education. In September of that year, the Taliban also passed the so-called “New Moral Law,” which in Article 13 stipulates that women must always cover their bodies and faces in public “to avoid tempting others or being tempted.” Women’s voices are considered private, and they are forbidden from singing, reciting, or reading aloud in public. The Taliban also bans women from seeing men who are not related by blood or marriage, and prohibits women from traveling alone… These practices, which were considered reactionary and decayed over a hundred years ago, have now once again cast a shadow over the Afghan people. These reactionary clerics, landlords, and comprador elements of the Taliban have dragged Afghanistan step by step into an abyss, turning it into the darkest and most barbaric place in the world in the 21st century. \n\nㅤRecently, they committed another heinous crime against humanity. The Taliban in Afghanistan have issued new bans on women, forbidding them from receiving medical education. According to this latest ban, all Afghan women are prohibited from studying medicine or engaging in any medical-related work. This ban is rapidly becoming a reality, with Taliban health officials stating they have received directives from the Taliban’s highest leadership, and these directives have already been issued to medical colleges and healthcare institutions nationwide. Afghanistan’s healthcare level has long been extremely low due to ongoing war and chaos. UN officials state that even without such laws, Afghanistan currently faces a shortage of at least tens of thousands of female medical staff. After this ban, the already insufficient number of female midwives, nurses, and doctors will decrease significantly, leading to a sharp reduction in medical aid available to the Afghan people, especially women. They will be unable to receive medical treatment for gynecological diseases, and many will die from childbirth complications, heavy bleeding, and other diseases. Such blatant reactionary acts, still occurring in the 21st century, can only be described as anti-human and beyond any suitable adjectives. \n\nㅤToday, some people still shamelessly say, “The Taliban was the choice of the Afghan people” and “Afghans do not want social progress.” It is truly shameless! According to them, the Afghan people chose the Taliban, and now they must bear the consequences of social backwardness—blaming the Afghan people themselves. This is a complete reversal of right and wrong, a shameless lie. The Afghan Islamic Republic government overthrown by the Taliban, and even the Taliban themselves, are all oppressors imposed on the Afghan people by imperialism. Over the past half-century, imperialist thugs have invaded Afghanistan multiple times to turn it into a pawn in their imperialist struggles, bringing countless disasters to the Afghan people. In 1979, the Soviet Union launched a brutal invasion to support its puppet government. At that time, the U.S., in its imperialist rivalry with the USSR, provided military and economic support to the then-forefront “Afghan Holy Warriors,” which eventually led to the rise of the Taliban as an ugly monster. After the Taliban-supported “Al-Qaeda” carried out the “9/11 terrorist attacks” against the U.S., America used this as a pretext to invade Afghanistan and installed its puppet government. Indeed, whether it was the Soviet-supported “People’s Democratic Republic of Afghanistan” or the U.S.-supported “Islamic Republic of Afghanistan,” they appeared more progressive than the Taliban and supported “women’s liberation,” but all these so-called “social progress” were merely imperialist puppet shows. These so-called progressive measures could only be implemented in a few cities like Kabul, while Afghanistan’s rural areas remained engulfed in warlord chaos caused by imperialist invasions, turning into outlets for imperialist goods. During the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, the population did not grow at all; during the U.S. occupation of twenty years, Afghan farmers could only survive by growing opium, making Afghanistan the world’s largest producer of opiates. Do the Afghan people reject “social progress”? In fact, most of the Afghan people have never experienced any “social progress” brought by these invaders—only wave after wave of imperialist invasions and endless disasters. \n\nㅤThe Taliban are the same. For imperialist invaders, whether a regime wears the cloak of “progress” or “backwardness” is irrelevant; what matters is who benefits their invasion. Even before the Taliban came to power, imperialist China and Russia engaged with the Taliban under the banner of supporting “peace talks among Afghan factions.” After the Taliban overthrew the U.S.-backed Afghan Islamic Republic, they quickly sold out Afghanistan to China and Russia, allowing these two major imperialist powers, especially China, to carry out commodity and capital exports. In 2023, bilateral trade between China and Afghanistan reached $1.33 billion, of which $1.26 billion was China’s exports, and only about $70 million was Afghanistan’s exports to China, mostly minerals. China also recklessly plunders Afghanistan’s mineral resources. On December 1, China signed agreements with the Taliban on the Aynak copper mine and the Baghdara hydropower project, aiming to turn Afghanistan into a colony that supplies raw materials for China’s industries. Due to the Taliban’s notorious reputation, China and Russia have yet to establish formal diplomatic relations with the Taliban, but everyone understands that the Taliban has become a puppet used by China and Russia to control Central Asia. This support is also visible in the online comments of countless “Little Pink” nationalists, who praise the Taliban and even support their reactionary measures, claiming they reflect “the wisdom of Prophet Muhammad.” Ironically, these people, who expose their bestial nature when suffering under Taliban rule, now wear the mask of “progress” and lament the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s “secular” government in Syria. They act as if they are the masters, advising Syrian women not to follow Afghanistan’s example, warning, “Don’t celebrate Bashar’s fall; once HTS (Hayat Tahrir al-Sham) implements Islamic law, you’ll be obedient.” One can only wonder: who did they learn their flexible moral standards from? \n\nㅤToday, Afghanistan is shrouded in darkness. Domestically, the Taliban have eliminated all organized opposition, enveloping the entire country under the shadow of the Qur’an; internationally, Afghanistan is surrounded tightly by comprador forces supported by China and Russia—Iran to the southwest, Pakistan to the southeast, the former Soviet republics and members of the CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organization) to the north, and China itself to the east—leaving almost no hope. Yet, the rulers of the Taliban are not necessarily so stable; China and Russia are both mired in serious crises, living on the brink of collapse, and the Taliban probably won’t live longer than their masters. Sooner or later, the people may reject this tyranny and shove the rotten tumor of Central Asian corruption into the trash heap of history. 驻阿富汗大使赵星出席艾娜克铜矿巴格达拉水电项目合作协议签约仪式_中华人民共和国外交部 https://www.uschinapress.com/static/content/GJ/2024-08-22/1276373487490076672.html https://www.zhihu.com/question/666767896?utm_psn=1852828105372221440 联合国人权专家警告：塔利班禁止女性接受医学培训将加剧阿富汗妇女健康危机 | | 1联合国新闻 阿富汗塔利班禁止女性学医或从事医学相关工作，联合国官员发声_腾讯新闻