Desi Cartman Posted June 1, 2010 Posted June 1, 2010 THE two Afghan girls had every reason to expect the law would be on their side when a policeman at a checkpoint stopped the bus they were in. Disguised in boys' clothes, the girls, aged 13 and 14, had been fleeing for two days along rutted roads and over mountain passes from their illegal forced marriages to much older men, and had made it to relatively liberal Herat province. Instead, the police officer spotted them as girls, ignored their pleas and promptly sent them back to their remote village in Ghor province. There they were publicly and viciously flogged for daring to run away from their husbands. Their tormentors, who videotaped the abuse, were not the Taliban, but local mullahs and the former warlord who largely rules the district where the girls live. Neither girl flinched visibly at the beatings and afterwards both walked away with their heads unbowed. Sympathisers of the victims smuggled out two video recordings of the floggings to the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, which released them at the weekend after unsuccessfully lobbying for government action. According to a United Nations Children's Fund study, the brides in 43 per cent of Afghan marriages were younger than 18. Although the Afghan constitution forbids the marriage of girls younger than 16, tribal customs often condone marriage once puberty is reached, or even earlier. Flogging is also illegal. The case of Khadija Rasoul, 13, and Basgol Sakhi, 14, from the village of Gardan-i-Top, in the Dulina district of Ghor province, central Afghanistan, was notable for the failure of the authorities to do anything to protect the girls. Although Herat has shelters for battered and runaway women and girls, the police contacted the former warlord, Fazil Ahad Khan, whom Human Rights Commission workers describe as the self-appointed commander and morals enforcer in his district in Ghor province, and returned the girls to his custody. After a kangaroo court run by Khan and local religious leaders, according to the commission's report on the episode, the girls were sentenced to 40 lashes each and flogged. The Human Rights Commission took the tapes to the governor of Ghor province, Sayed Iqbal Munib, who formed a commission to investigate the incident but took no action, saying the district was too insecure to send police there. Link I find it weird that they all go up in arms and unite globally over a fecking joke or cartoon but I have never seen anybody protest to stop these brutalities
Zap_Brannigan Posted June 1, 2010 Posted June 1, 2010 Link I find it weird that they all go up in arms and unite globally over a fecking joke or cartoon but I have never seen anybody protest to stop these brutalities But you already know the answer to this.When you follow the words of someone who lived 1500 years ago in a barbaric time, there isnt much you can do.
Desi Cartman Posted June 1, 2010 Author Posted June 1, 2010 But you already know the answer to this.When you follow the words of someone who lived 1500 years ago in a barbaric time' date=' there isnt much you can do.[/quote'] Protest :dontknow: death threats .. etc ?
Zap_Brannigan Posted June 1, 2010 Posted June 1, 2010 Protest :dontknow: death threats .. etc ? I meant what is seen as wrong and what is right. Clearly marrying 13/14 years old girls to 40 year old guys is not seen as wrong (unless ofcourse they see it as the girls are too old) but drawing the "prophet" is. So they are ready to protest only the wrong.
Clarke Posted June 1, 2010 Posted June 1, 2010 There is a movie (based on a true story) which sounded so much like those 2 girls. The mother of the girl in the center of the pic has her hair cut and dresses her look like a boy so she can work and they can survive. She gets caught and is about to be punished when an old ffart negotiates with the taliban elders and marries her.
flamy Posted June 1, 2010 Posted June 1, 2010 There is a movie (based on a true story) which sounded so much like those 2 girls. The mother of the girl in the center of the pic has her hair cut and dresses her look like a boy so she can work and they can survive. She gets caught and is about to be punished when an old ffart negotiates with the taliban elders and marries her. ya, I have seen it and my dad met the director when he was in Kabul. I sent a personal review to the director. :--D
Zelig Posted June 1, 2010 Posted June 1, 2010 [tex1des mode] The girls have got only themselves to blame for not having born early:headshake: [/tex1des mode] dude(read as dumbo) texy, not them..their parents:giggle:
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