Afghan Women Commit Suicide by Fire

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061118/ap_on_re_as/afghan_suicide_by_fire

"Reliable statistics on self-immolation nationwide are difficult to gauge. In Herat province, where the practice has been most reported and publicized, there were 93 cases last year and 54 so far this year. More than 70 percent of these women die.

"It's all over the country. ... The trend is upward," said Ancil Adrian-Paul of Medica Mondiale, a nonprofit that supports women and girls in crisis zones.

The group has seen girls as young as 9 and women as old as 40 set themselves on fire."

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1. Geez, don't they have a sense of humor?

:sarcasm:

Five years after the fall of the repressive Taliban regime, domestic violence affects "an overwhelming majority" of Afghan women and girls, according to a recent report from Womankind, an international women's rights groups.

An estimated 60 to 80 percent of Afghan marriages are forced, the report said. More than half of Afghan women are married before they turn 16 and many young girls are married to men who are several decades older, the report said. The exchange of women and girls to resolve a crime, debt or household dispute is also common.

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2. As a man I say it's time for women to take up arms!

Worldwide. End abuse and degradation NOW.

Don't take shit from anyone. My mother wouldn't have.