'They will not kill my voice'

That's the voice of Afghanistan's most famous woman:

Malalai Joya is one of the most popular MPs in Afghanistan and has many a time taken [a] stand against the ex-Mujahideen fighters who dominate the country's new assembly.

But Ms Joya and many of her supporters fear she will be assassinated.
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"They will kill me but they will not kill my voice," she says, "because it will be the voice of all Afghan women. You can cut the flower, but you cannot stop the coming of spring."
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Ms Joya says that she continues to receive a constant stream of messages of support from ordinary Afghans.

"It gives me strength to keep telling the truth," she said.
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She continues to work for an NGO called the Organisation for Promoting Afghan Women's Capabilities (OPAWC).

"How can a country improve when 50% of its population are silenced?" she said. "It is like a bird with only one wing."

(Hat tip: RB.)