And here is yet
another shocking tidings from Afghanistan! Close on the heels of the shooting
by Taliban Islamists of a 14-year-old Pakistani girl, Malala Yousafzai, who had
become a voice against the suppression of women’s rights, a young woman was
beheaded last week for not accepting demand to have sex with a man who was not
her husband. And the demand came from none other than her mother-in-law who
chopped her daughter-in-law’s head!
This is just one
of thousands of such crimes against women in Afghanistan, but given the fact
that her mother-in-law herself was trying to push her into flesh trade, the
incident is highly condemnable and totally barbaric.
Mah Gul, was just
a 20-year-old woman, who lived in Herat province in southwestern Afghanistan
along the Iranian border. She had been
harassed and forced for getting into prostitution by her mother in law,
according to reports.
According to
reports appeared in The Daily Telegraph, Gul had been married for four months
to her husband who was a baker. When her
goes out for work, his mother and her cousin tried to force the young wife into
sex with the cousin.
When their
attempts went in vain, the mother-in-law made her son believe that Gul was a
prostitute and lured his cousin Najibullah to behead her.
“It was around 2
am when Gul’s husband left for his bakery. I came down and with the help of her
mother-in-law killed her with a knife,” Najibullah was quoted as saying.
Reports say that
women and girls in Afghanistan and the region are living lives horror. They are
being raped, killed, forced into marriage in childhood, prevented from
obtaining education and denied their sexual and reproductive rights.
Until the whole
world stand united and guarantee basic human rights for the women in the
region, these heinous abuses will continue unchecked.
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