Ex-Afghan MP Pans US Mock Democracy

The Afghan people had been hopeful the US-led invasion "would bring democracy for them and security for them and many more things like that, but unfortunately we are looking at a worse situation than the Taliban period," Malalaj Joya said.

"Please pressure your government to change this policy, it is a mockery of democracy, it is a mockery of the war on terror," she added ahead of the screening of a documentary about her 2005 election campaign at the Human Rights Watch film festival in New York.

Joya said US-backed lawmakers presented recently a draft law offering a blanket amnesty for those who committed war crimes over nearly 30 years of conflict.

"How can criminals forgive themselves?" she wondered.

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has recently warned that the US-led troops and the West-backed Hamid Karzai government have been collaborating with blood-stained hands, appointing war criminals and human rights abusers to achieve their unwinnable mission.

Those perpetrators now enjoy a massive presence in the government and the parliament, and they still misuse positions of power, according to the international rights watchdog.

Oppressive Parlt.

Joya, who was kicked out of the parliament last month after describing the legislative body as "worse than a stable," lashed out at the "non-democratic" legislature.

"This is a completely non-democratic parliament, they stand up against the constitution and they do non-democratic acts," she said.

Joya said her parliament colleagues voted her out of the parliament so that she could no longer oppose and expose their actions.

"Many, many times they insulted me, even inside of the parliament they threw water at me and they threatened me with death, and one of them shouted, 'Take her and rape her,'" she said.

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