The totalitarian Taliban regime has never been friendly to human rights or UN relief organizations, but now that it serves their propaganda they are demanding that UN relief agencies that they have consistently harassed "help the people of Afghanistan." A statement released by the Taliban appears aimed primarily at outside media and public opinion. Although the Taliban regime is a brutal abuser of human rights within Afghanistan, its newest statement printed and well translated into English is "rooted almost entirely in an appeal to the principles enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights," even directing readers to UN websites.