The announcement of the Purple Saturdays movement in connection with the 7th anniversary of the terrorist attack on the "Lighting Movement" rally in Kabul.

The announcement of the Purple Saturdays movement in connection with the 7th anniversary of the terrorist attack on the “Lighting Movement” rally in Kabul.

On 2nd of Asad 1395, thousands of citizens of the country demanded their citizenship rights in protest against the policy of depriving the central regions of the country.

The policy of depriving the central regions, which has its roots in the contemporary history of the country and the oppression of Afghanistan’s rulers, has been systematically applied for years and has deprived millions of residents of the central regions of their basic rights, which include roads, electricity, economic infrastructure, airports, and universities. Deprived

Following the autocratic policies of the past rulers, the government of Ashraf Ghani, the former fugitive president, has changed the transmission line of 500 kilowatts of electricity from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan in an uneconomical move, so that the central regions are still deprived.

Changing the route of the transmission line of 500 kilowatts of electricity from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan was opposed by the political leaders and citizens of the country, and the government agreed to transfer 220 kilowatts of electricity from Baghlan province to the central regions under great pressure, but it was not implemented.

The citizens of the country, especially the residents of the central regions, took to the roads to express their protest in the offending provinces, including Kabul city, but on that fateful day, the peaceful protest and gathering of thousands of citizens in the Dehmzang area was responded to with a terrorist attack, as a result of which more than 90 people were martyred and more than 40 people were injured.

The organizers of this protest demonstration, which was called the Enlightenment Movement, accused the Afghan government, especially Mohammad Hanif Atmar, the National Security Adviser at the time, of organizing this attack.

Ashraf Ghani’s government, which seriously followed the policy of its ancestors to eliminate the central regions despite the death of hundreds of educated youths, did not back down, but by creating a truth-finding commission, it tried to hide the facts of that black day forever.

Seven years have passed since that day, and the citizens of the central regions are not only in more deprivation than before, but due to the dominance of the extremist Taliban ethnic group, they are not even allowed to hold their religious ceremonies freely.

Considering the rule of the Alban group in Afghanistan and the deterioration of the human rights situation and the level of access of Afghans to civil rights and liberties, the “Purple Saturday Movement” believes that the only way to ensure social justice and get rid of the current situation is to establish a decentralized democratic government based on the real vote of the citizens of this country.