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Afghan Activist's Killers Hanged
Tuesday, May 7, 2002
(15:23 GMT) (16:23 UK)
By Susannah Price
A BBC Correspondent

RAWA members help distribute aid in poor areas.
Image Credit: l'Agence France-Presse (AFP).

RAWA members were forced to work undercover and many were arrested and killed by different Afghan regimes.

ISLAMABAD -- BBC
Two men convicted of murdering the founder of a campaigning women's group have been hanged in Pakistan.

The men were found guilty of killing 30-year-old Meena Kishwar Kamal, who set up the Revolutionary Afghan Women's Association (RAWA).

Activists from the organisation protested against the Soviet occupation, then the warring mujahideen factions and finally against the Taleban, at great risk to their personal safety.

RAWA became internationally known during the Taleban rule, when its members organised protests calling for women's rights and an end to fighting by both sides.
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