Afghanistan and Bonn II

C(M)PA: "Bonn II: A gathering for deciding the future of the occupation war against our people"


12 December 2011. A World to Win News Service. Following are excerpts from a statement, dated 22 November, by the Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan.

Ten years ago now, in December 2001, the invading American and British imperialists and their allies organized the Bonn Meeting to sketch their future war plans against our people and set up a puppet regime in Afghanistan. In this gathering under the wings of the imperialists a flock of national traitors were brought to assemble. The UN was employed to provide an international and legal façade for the war of imperialist aggression under the pretext of a "war against terrorism".

Now once again the imperialist occupiers are gathering in order to rearrange the plans for the future of their war against our people. However, this planning is not merely regarding the next three years, but it is a two stage plan of thirteen years. The first stage includes from now until the end of 2014 and the second stage starts from 2014 until the end of 2024. In the first stage, America's allies and a part of American forces are leaving Afghanistan, thus the military, political and economic strategic agreement between them and the puppet regime has to be formalized in order to allow it to continue with their invasions and military interventions against our country and its people.


It has become apparent that the American imperialists intend to keep tens of thousands of their forces in several key military strategic bases even after 2014. The ten years extendible strategic agreement between the US and Karzai’s puppet regime is supposed to provide the legal framework for the presence of American forces and the establishment of their long-term military bases. The legal basis for the continuation of invasions and military interventions of American imperialist allies too would be provided through these strategic agreements with the puppet regime. British, German, French, Australian and other imperialists and the European Union as whole can continue with their aggressions and military interventions based on these kind of agreements.


The strategic agreement between the expansionist reactionary Indian state and the Kabul puppet regime that was signed a while ago between Manmohan Singh and Hamid Karzai is an essential aspect of the overall strategic agreements signed between the Karzai regime and the imperialist and reactionary powers from the perspective of regional power realignments. In this context, signing the strategic agreement between the Indian government and the puppet regime is nothing other than the alignment of the Indian state and the puppet regime against Afghanistan.


The emergence of this kind of circumstances would be an important source of regional tensions and conflicts, and would even further ignite the flames of reactionary conflicts that have already engulfed the region. Thus, the continuation of the imperialist war waged by the US and its allies against our country and people, whose central issue is the persistence of the presence of the strategic military bases in Afghanistan, proves and illustrates the following:


The American imperialists and its allies have not come to Afghanistan to fight against terrorism nor to promote democracy and human rights, women’s rights and the rights of oppressed nationalities, nor to bring social, cultural and economic development. In reality they are after their regional and global political and economic strategic interests and they do not intend to easily leave our people and the region's peoples alone or withdraw their occupying forces.


The second Bonn conference is a gathering for the purposes of the implementation and execution of this plan of the American imperialists and its European and non-European allies. That is why, we view this gathering as an event about the future of occupying, aggressive, and interventionist imperialist war against our country and our people and we strongly condemn it.


The Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan that is working towards and preparing for the people's revolutionary war of national resistance against the occupiers and the puppet regime, strongly believes that the continued presence of the American imperialist occupiers in Afghanistan after 2014 would increase the pressure of war against our people, but would also ignite and increase other regional tensions. Therefore, their prolonged strategic military presence would not only not reduce the resistance against them, but it will even further strengthen and expand the social base of resistance against them. Moreover, the continuation of the American occupiers’ crisis-engendering presence would increase the opposition against them in the entire region. At a time when the entire imperialist world system and specially the American imperialists have been engulfed with a severe economic crisis and the peoples resistance in the imperialist countries is on the rise, and the corruption and rottenness of the puppet regime is incurable, we strongly believe that the American imperialists and their national traitor satraps would be defeated by a broadly-based and prolonged national resistance.

Based on this conviction we have augmented our preparatory efforts for the people's revolutionary war of national resistance and we strive to move from the stage of preparation to the start of the actual war sooner rather then later. The imperialist plans for the future of the occupying war against our people are doomed to failure.