{"id":14805,"date":"2010-11-02T14:44:04","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T20:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14805"},"modified":"2010-11-02T14:44:04","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T20:44:04","slug":"malalai-joya-any-hope-i-had-in-the-ballot-box-bringing-change-in-afghanistan-is-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14805","title":{"rendered":"Malalai Joya: Any hope I had in the ballot box bringing change in Afghanistan is gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>If Karzai&#8217;s re-election was a fraud, Obama&#8217;s surge of troops brought just more violence. For Afghans he&#8217;s the &#8216;second Bush&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/malalai-joya\">Malalai Joya<\/a> in Kabul<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/theguardian\">The Guardian<\/a>, Tuesday 2 November 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One year ago <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2009\/nov\/02\/hamid-karzai-afghanistan-winner-election\">Hamid Karzai was declared re-elected<\/a> as president of Afghanistan, ending an election that had no legitimacy  in the eyes of ordinary Afghans. The presidential election last year was  a fraud, with ballot stuffing, vote buying and massive corruption  reported by the world&#8217;s media. Even if the independent election  commission had not cancelled the planned run-off between Karzai and his  main challenger, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/abdullah-abdullah\">Abdullah Abdullah<\/a>,  it would have represented only a choice of the &#8220;same donkey with a new  saddle&#8221;. People had no incentive to participate as they knew that both  main candidates would bring nothing positive for Afghan people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/cifamerica\/2010\/nov\/02\/hope-ballot-box-afghanistan-gone\">Read more<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Karzai&#8217;s re-election was a fraud, Obama&#8217;s surge of troops brought just more violence. For Afghans he&#8217;s the &#8216;second Bush&#8217; Malalai Joya in Kabul The Guardian, Tuesday 2 November 2010 One year ago Hamid Karzai was declared re-elected as president &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14805\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3QN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14805"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14809,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14805\/revisions\/14809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}