Horrifically Brutalized Afghan Girl Finds Strength (Disturbing)

[Turborama]

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Meet a remarkable girl Diane Sawyer encountered on her trip to Afghanistan.

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Afghanistan/abused-women-afghanistan-helped-secret-shelters/story?id=10074409">ABC Exclusive: The Secret Shelters That Protect Afghan Women

Bebe Tells ABC News' Diane Sawyer Why Husband Cut Off Her Nose and Ears

By MARGARET ARO and MARK MOONEY
KABUL, Afghanistan March 11, 2010

Not every Afghan is hoping the Americans soon leave their country. Some are actually dreading it.<[br />

"You can't leave Afghanistan," Manizha, who helps run a shelter for battered women, recently warned "World News" anchor Diane Sawyer. Behind Manizha, women who were beaten, bruised and badly scarred shake their heads in urgent agreement.

The secret women's shelter is run by Manizha -- who, like most Afghans, goes by only one name -- and by New Yorker Esther Hyneman. It is one of a string of shelters and counseling centers that opened in 2007 and have since helped about 1,500 Afghan women escape beatings and abuse that can shock even battle-hardened combat surgeons.

Among the most heartbreaking is the story of Bebe. She is 17, and she says her face was mutilated by her husband, a Talib. Bebe's nose and ears were cut off as punishment for running away to escape the constant pummeling by her husband and his family. She was married to the radical Muslim when she was 12, Manizha told Sawyer. Her marriage was the result of an outlawed tribal custom called "baad" in which the daughter was given away as compensation for a crime or offense committed by a male member of Bebe's family.

Girls given away in baad transactions are often little more than slaves. Bebe was forced to sleep in a stable with the animals, and beatings and pain became part of life for her.

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1. Poor girl.

[NJmaverick]

2. K & R hoping everyone advocating the immediate withdrawal from Afghanistan

has a price the Afghan people will pay

[Turborama]

4. They're probably avoiding watching this

And if their wishes came true they'd most likely avoid watching the aftermath, too.

[elias49]

5. I advocate for withdrawal

What does that have to do with centuries-old Afghan religious/ethnic practices? Are we there to 'Christianise' them?
If you think this is a holy war,say so.

[leftynyc]

6. No desire to Christianize

them. I'm not a Christian. I wouldn't mind civilizing these girls' oppressors. The oppressors are barbarians.

[Blue Owl]

3. if one of these brutalized women

murdered the sub-human fucking piece of shit coward who did this to her, I wouldn't blink an eye -- in fact I'd call it progress.

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