Liberation eludes Afghan women

[carols]

Forced marriages, beatings, suicides persist despite Taliban's fall
This country supposedly was liberated by the U.S.-led military campaign that ousted the Taliban, but the conservative warlords who run Afghanistan's far-flung provinces support strict rules that bar women from public life and turn a blind eye when their armed militias rape women and girls.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/04/16/MNGQN668FP1.DTL


Yeah - we did sooooo well liberating the Afghan people <heavy sarcasm followed by morose sigh)
Carol

[NMDemDist2]

1. You know carols all during the buildup to Iraq

I kept on saying "But what about Afghanistan?? Why aren't we hearing anything about Afghanistan??"

The bastard Bushies anyway. crap! :argh:

[PartyPooper]

2. Somebody forgot to tell Rumsfeld, et. al.!

All I keep hearing is that, for the first time, girls are attending schools built by our soldiers, etc....and, everything is just hunky dory over there.

Some have even said that the "liberal press" just reports the bad news. If so, how come I haven't heard about these atrocities in the mainstream press?

:eyes:

[DeepModem Mom]

3. kick

[gottaB]

4. immolation in the news

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_17-4-2004_pg4_13

Lying on a filthy hospital bed in the city of Herat, Zahara clearly found it painful to speak, but once she began, her story gushed out in a torrent of hurt.

"My body was black from beatings," she said. "I was happy to kill myself because life was unbearable."

Zahara said her husband taunted her when she said she wanted to return to her family and threatened her with a gun. Eventually he said she should kill herself if she was so unhappy.

"He thought I was joking, but I took the matches and set myself on fire," she said. "At first I was happy to get married, but things turned really bad."