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Malalai Joya - Interview by Cindy Sheehan (1 of 2)

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Channel: Xenu · 2010 · News & Politics

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Malalai Joya (born April 25, 1978) is an Afghan parliamentarian who has been called "the bravest woman in Afghanistan." As an elected member of the Wolesi Jirga from Farah province, she has publicly denounced the presence of warlords and war criminals in the parliament. She is an outspoken critic of both the Taliban as well as the present Afghan government of Karzai and its western supporters. 

The daughter of a former medical student who lost a leg while fighting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Malalai Joya was 4 years old when her family fled Afghanistan in 1982 to the refugee camps of Iran and later Pakistan. After the Soviet withdrawal, Malalai Joya returned to Afghanistan in 1998 during the Taliban's reign. As a young woman she worked as a social activist and was named a director of the non-governmental group Organization of Promoting Afghan Women's Capabilities (OPAWC) in the western provinces of Herat and Farah. In May 2007, Joya was suspended from the parliament on the grounds that she had insulted fellow representatives in a television interview. Her suspension, which is currently being appealed, has generated protest internationally and appeals for her reinstatement have been signed by high profile writers, intellectuals and politicians. Joya has been compared to the symbol of Burma's democracy movement, Aung San Suu Kyi.

TIME magazine named Malalai Joya to the 2010 TIME 100, the magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Joya has written a memoir with Canadian writer Derrick O' Keefe under the title of "A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice" (2009).
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