LIFE AS A MIRAGE

Initial excerpt of the text I wrote for the video Life as a Mirage:  

There are places in the world

where life seems always

incomplete

Too many times, to live

means only to survive

against all odds

One of those places

is Afghanistan,

again,

mainly to women, children

and minorities

After centuries of endless wars

After the fall of empires and kings

After ten years of guerrilla against

the soviet occupation (1979-1989)

After years of pseudo-communism

and anti-communism

autocracy and theocracy

And a civil war that was more

a religious and ethnical war

like all wars in Islamic countries…

After Afghanistan became the nest

of terrorist groups

like Al-Qaeda.

After a partial occupation by USA and allies (2001-2021)

that brought more war, guerrilla and terror attacks

perpetrated by Islamic extremists

like the Taliban

But also freedom and rights for the majority,

mainly women, children

and ethnical minorities...

Along with the constant

tribal and religious conflicts

and the constant collusion of Pakistan,

Qatar, and other Islamic countries

with terrorists and Islamic extremists…

On August 15, 2021, the Taliban,

an Islamic extremist group,

took over the power again

and brought fear, death

and oppression again...

after a first long bloody nightmare

1996-2001

Life as a Mirage - Afghanistan, text & video by São Ludovino