American Wire News Suicides by women in Afghanistan are skyrocketing according to a new report that has come out a year after President Biden catastrophically pulled US forces from the country handing it over to the Taliban.
"The despair of Afghanistan women suffering under the deadly oppression of the Taliban is palpable to all women and it should bring great shame to the Biden administration.
"One young woman was kept from becoming a doctor and then was forced into a marriage with her cousin who was a heroin addict. She felt she had nothing left to live for and proceeded to take her own life in a country where more women than men commit suicide.
“ 'I had two options: to marry an addict and live a life of misery or take my own life,” the 18-year-old stated during a phone interview from her home in central Ghor province with The Guardian. “I chose the latter.” . . .
Taliban's restrictive measures in Afghanistan have led to a distressing surge in female suicides. In a harrowing turn of events, an alarming number of Afghan women, facing limited freedoms in education, work, and movement, are committing suicide, as revealed by a investigation by… pic.twitter.com/hhvrfdZDzd
— Afghanistan Times (@AfghanistanTime) August 28, 2023
No comments:
Post a Comment