‘Despair is settling in’: female suicides on rise in Taliban’s Afghanistan
‘Despair is settling in’: female suicides on rise in Taliban’s Afghanistan
Unofficial figures point to a mental health crisis amid severe restrictions on Afghan women’s lives
First, her dreams of becoming a doctor were dashed by the Taliban’s ban on education. Then her family set up a forced marriage to her cousin, a heroin addict. Latifa* felt her future had been snatched away.
“I had two options: to marry an addict and live a life of misery or take my own life,” said the 18-year-old in a phone interview from her home in central Ghor province. “I chose the latter.”
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they had all the means and support of the whole world...thats what they chose.
Who is "they"? Because Afghan women sure as hell didn't choose this.
Every Afghan who sheltered and supported Taliban or did not fight them on their way to Kabul. Including women. If not fighting (which they could) they could have at least motivate their men or sons...or given intel. They didn't. A small minority did -to be fair- but the majority didn't.
Ah yes lemme just fight armed soldiers with my bare hands.
Comments like this make me wish we had a downvote button.
Maybe you need to have been there to understand the country and ppl instead off assuming
Who are you referring to?