On May 30, 2018, a displaced girl in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Herat, Afghanistan. (Image source: Getty Images)
[Look at the news from China on August 15, 2021](French RFI)AfghanistanAfter enjoying 20 years of freedom, women have seen victoriousTalibanAll the wayForcibly marry a girlThe tragedy, feeling panic and helpless. According to French media reports, the Taliban have banned girls from going to school in the villages and ordered the head of the household to marry girls who have reached the age of 13. The Secretary-General of the United Nations expressed “shock” and “heartbroken” at what happened to the Afghan girl.
Agence France-Presse reported from Kabul on Saturday August 14 that in just over a week, the Taliban had controlled most of the northern, western and southern parts of Afghanistan and reached the gate of Kabul. They are now only 50 kilometers away from the capital, and there is no sign that their marching speed will slow down.
Fear prevails
For the residents of Kabul and the tens of thousands who have fled their homes in recent weeks to seek refuge in the capital, fear now prevails.
Muzhda, a 35-year-old single woman, and her two sisters came to take refuge in the capital from Parwan province in the north. She told AFP: “When I saw the Taliban forcing young girls to marry their fighters, She cried day and night. She warned: “If the Taliban come to force her to marry them, she will resist by suicide.
Dawood Hotak, a 28-year-old shopkeeper in Kabul, began to “worry” for his sisters. He said: “If the situation becomes very bad, we will leave Afghanistan again, as we did in the early 1990s.
Agence France-Presse said that many Afghans-especially women-are accustomed to the freedom they have enjoyed over the past 20 years and are worried about returning to Taliban rule. During the Taliban’s administration from 1996 to 2001, they imposed extremely strict Islamic laws, which prohibited women from going out and working without a man’s company, and girls were forbidden to go to school. Women accused of “adultery” were beaten and stoned to death.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday: “Afghan girls and women have been denied their hard-won rights. This is especially shocking and heartbreaking.”
On Saturday, fierce fighting also took place around Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of Balkh province, where the Afghan army carried out new air strikes. This commercial center is the only major city in the north of the country that has not yet been controlled by the Taliban.
At present, other major cities controlled by the Afghan government include the capital Kabul and Mazar-e-Sharif, as well as Jalalabad in the east and Jadez and Khost in the southeast. However, because these cities are located on the Pashtun-dominated turf, the birthplace of the Taliban, they are not expected to engage in long-term resistance.
Original title: Taliban forcibly marrying girls triggers panic, UN Secretary-General shocked and heartbroken
Source: France-Canton RFI
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