[Nasional-e] MEENA: Aku Takkan Kembali

[Sato Sakaki]

I’LL NEVER RETURN
(by: Meena)

I’m the woman who has awoken
I’ve arisen and become a tempest through the ashes of
my burnt children
I’ve arisen from the rivulets of my brother’s blood
My nation’s wrath has empowered me
My ruined and burnt villages fill me with hatred
against the enemy,
I’m the woman who has awoken,
I’ve found my path and will never return.
I’ve opened closed doors of ignorance
I’ve said farewell to all golden bracelets
Oh compatriot, I’m not what I was
I’m the woman who has awoken
I’ve found my path and will never return.
I’ve seen barefoot, wandering and homeless children
I’ve seen henna-handed brides with mourning clothes
I’ve seen giant walls of the prisons swallow freedom
in their ravenous stomach
I’ve been reborn amidst epics of resistance and
courage
I’ve learned the song of freedom in the last breaths,
in the waves of blood and in victory
Oh compatriot, Oh brother, no longer regard me as weak
and incapable
With all my strength I’m with you on the path of my
land’s liberation.
My voice has mingled with thousands of arisen women
My fists are clenched with the fists of thousands
compatriots
Along with you I’ve stepped up to the path of my
nation,
To break all these sufferings all these fetters of
slavery,
Oh compatriot, Oh brother, I’m not what I was
I’m the woman who has awoken
I’ve found my path and will never return.

(Biography of martyred Meena,                         
         founding leader of RAWA

MEENA (1956-1987) was born on February 27, 1956
in Kabul. During her school days, students in Kabul
and other Afghan cities were deeply engaged in
social activism and rising mass movements. She left
the university to devote herself as a social activist
to organizing and educating women. In pursuit of her
cause for gaining the right of freedom of expression
and conducting political activities, Meena laid the
foundation of RAWA in 1977. This organization was
meant to give voice to the deprived and silenced
women of Afghanistan. She started a campaign
against the Russian forces and their puppet regime in
1979 and organized numerous processions and
meetings in schools, colleges and Kabul University to
mobilize public opinion. Another great service
rendered by her for the Afghan women is the
launching of a bilingual magazine, Payam-e-Zan
(Women's Message) in 1981. Through this magazine
RAWA has been projecting the cause of Afghan
women boldly and effectively. Payam-e-Zan has
constantly exposed the criminal nature of
fundamentalist groups. Meena also established
Watan Schools for refugee children, a hospital and
handicraft centers for refugee women in Pakistan to
support Afghan women financially. At the end of
1981, by invitation of the French Government Meena
represented the Afghan resistance movement at the
French Socialist Party Congress. The Soviet
delegation at the Congress, headed by Boris
Ponamaryev, shamefacedly left the hall as
participants cheered when Meena started waving a
victory sign. Besides France, she also visited several
other European countries and met their prominent
personalities. Her active social work and effective
advocacy against the views of the fundamentalists
and the puppet regime provoked the wrath of the
Russians and the fundamentalist forces alike and she
was assassinated by agents of KHAD (Afghanistan
branch of KGB) and their fundamentalist accomplices
in Quetta, Pakistan, on February 4,1987.) 


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