Beaten, abused, chained. This is one Afghan woman's 'liberation'

[papau]

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1501,1056386,00.html

Beaten, abused, chained. This is one Afghan woman's 'liberation'

The Taliban's fall was supposed to bring freedom for women. But for many, life is still a misery - and for one, jail is the safest place to be

Yola Monakhov in Kandahar Sunday October 5, 2003 The Observer

Mina rests on the earth floor of a Kandahar jail. Now eight months pregnant by a man she says raped and tortured her for seven years, she is in the Afghan prison for fleeing the marital home. She is 28 but wears the lined, sad face of an old woman. Wet eyes glimmering through her burqa, she rocks gently as she talks of her coming baby as a bleak and loathsome prospect. 'I was abducted,' she says. 'This man is not my husband. I have a family and I want to go back to them. But if my parents see I have a new baby, they may kill me.'<snip>

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[Bozola]

1. To be fair to Laura Bush (& US policy)

Laura "The Destroyer" Bush said:

Good morning. I'm Laura Bush, and I'm delivering this week's radio address to kick off a world-wide effort to focus on the brutality against women and children by the al-Qaida terrorist network and the regime it supports in Afghanistan, the Tablian.

Since he regime in charge (however much anyone can be in Afghanistan) now is a happy little friend of ours, it is certainly no longer the Taliban controlled by the al Qaeda.

These women are no longer threated by the "Al Qaeda Terrorist Network" (tm), therefore are no longer a concern of the current administration.


Please move along. Nothing to see here.

[JitterbugPerfume]

2. <sob>

nothing to see here

nothing at all

how long will the world tolerate this?

[AliceWonderland]

4. The world

will tolerate this indefintely. We tolerate all sorts of atrocities that happen every day. There were a some people who stood up and said the "war" against Afghanistan was a farce, without rational basis and having disastrous humanitarian consequences. There was no chance that this situation wouldn't happen.

[Darranar]

3. I DESPISE BUSH!

:grr: