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Meena Keshwar Kamal (Pashto/(ペルシア語:مینا کشور کمال); February 27, 1956 – February 4, 1987), commonly known as Meena, was an Afghan revolutionary political activist, feminist, women's rights activist and founder of Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), who was assassinated in 1987. ==Biography== In 1977, when she was a student at Kabul University,〔(Afghan feminists fighting from under the burqa )〕 she founded Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), an organization formed to promote equality and education for women and continues to "give voice to the deprived and silenced women of Afghanistan". In 1979 she campaigned against DRA, and organized meetings in schools to mobilize support against it, and in 1981, she launched a bilingual feminist magazine, ''Payam-e-Zan'' (Women's Message).〔(پیام زن، نشریه جمعیت انقلابی زنان افغانستان - راوا )〕 She also founded Watan Schools to aid refugee children and their mothers, offering both hospitalization and the teaching of practical skills.〔(Brave Women in a War-Torn World: RAWA and Afghanistan )〕〔 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, left the hall as participants cheered when Meena started waving a victory sign.〔(Biography of Martyred Meena, RAWA's founding leader )〕 Time Magazine on November 13, 2006, in a special issue included Meena among "60 Asian Heroes" and wrote that "Although she was only 30 when she died, Meena had already planted the seeds of an Afghan women's rights movement based on the power of knowledge." 〔(TIME Magazine | 60 Years of Asian Heroes: Meena )〕 RAWA says of her "Meena gave 12 years of her short but brilliant life to struggle for her homeland and her people. She had a strong belief that despite the darkness of illiteracy, ignorance of fundamentalism, and corruption and decadence of sell outs imposed on our women under the name of freedom and equality, finally that half of population will be awaken and cross the path towards freedom, democracy and women's rights. The enemy was rightly shivering with fear by the love and respect that Meena was creating within the hearts of our people. They knew that within the fire of her fights all the enemies of freedom, democracy and women would be turned to ashes."〔 An enduring quote from Meena states:〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Meena Keshwar Kamal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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