In Afghanistan, the Stone Age group of Islamists has triumphed and is mercilessly continuing its well-known regime of terror against women and dissenters.
The US has put $10 million on Sirajuddin Haqqani’s head. This makes the most powerful man in Afghanistan, the man responsible for the police, military and security forces as home secretary, one of the most wanted terrorists in the world.
extremists in power
He belongs to the group of Islamists from the Stone Age and is seen as an absolute extremist who does not want to make concessions. Haqqani is responsible for most of the major terrorist attacks in Afghanistan in recent years. The blood of thousands of people is on his hands.
Very soon after US forces withdrew and the Taliban seized power last August, the so-called Haqqani network overthrew the dominant, somewhat more moderate, faction, which seemed to have learned from the mistakes of the past. With that, all promises to the international community, such as the rights of women and girls, were off the table.
harassment and threats
The women’s ministry was abolished and replaced by a virtue ministry, the strictest veil rules apply again, women are no longer allowed to travel alone, have either lost their jobs as judges, police officers and in the ministries, or are at least exposed to massive threats and intimidation.
In addition, contrary to previous Taliban promises, girls are denied access to higher education. After the sixth grade, there are no more public schools for them. In any case, female students can only go to private universities.
Systematic violence against women
Women and girls are once again considered fair game by many men and are subject to systematic discrimination and violence, as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights recently noted. The Taliban have shut down independent human rights organizations, women’s shelters and other special institutions committed to combating violence against women.
Thus, the women of Afghanistan are largely silenced. Those who took to the streets to protest were beaten, shot at with tear gas or arrested.
Afghanistan is in free fall
Aggravated by the war in Ukraine and the accompanying rise in food prices, the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan is also deteriorating. 95 percent of the population can no longer adequately feed themselves. Seven out of ten families are in permanent crisis mode. Thomas ten Boer, Welthungerhilfe’s country director, says: “Afghanistan is in free fall.”
Source: Krone
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