Taliban Crushes Women’s Rights Protest with Live Ammo and Tear Gas

Ladies making an attempt to affirm rights granted beneath the previous Afghan regime realized Saturday that regardless of discuss from the Taliban about respecting their rights, the fact is laced with tear fuel.

Roughly 100 ladies staged a protest in Kabul on Saturday that started with a wreath-laying on the Protection Ministry and ended with Taliban fighters firing weapons within the air and launching tear fuel on the protesters, in response to The Associated Press.

Marcher Sudaba Kabiri, 24, informed a Taliban official who was on the protest that ladies needed the rights to which they’re entitled and that Islam says ladies have rights.  She was informed women would have their rights protected.

However later, she informed ABC News that the Taliban used tear fuel and stun weapons to interrupt up the march whereas firing weapons within the air to frighten the protesters.

“They stood in entrance of our protest,” she mentioned. “They didn’t permit us to proceed our protest, as a result of they need to get rid of the facility of ladies. They don’t need to hear from the ladies.

“They [govern] as if this nation simply belongs to males. Ladies are nothing. It’s our nation as properly. Ladies are as educated [as men]. How can they take away us from this society? We’re part of this society. We protest to announce: ‘we’re right here.’”

“Right now was probably the most harmful day for us,” she continued. “The Taliban sprayed spice [tear gas] on us, they fired on us, they injured us.

“They are going to kill us, till then we are going to struggle for our era’s rights? The Taliban can not take away, they can not silence our voice. We’re a part of this society, this nation belongs to us as properly. Not just for males.”

Kabiri mentioned the march was held to send a message that she mentioned ladies will preserve sending.

“We need to present them that previously, when the Taliban had been in Afghanistan 20 years in the past, the ladies had been silent. We aren’t just like the previous ladies. We wouldn’t have to remain silent, we wouldn’t have to maintain ourselves silent,” she mentioned.

The New York Times quoted a girl whose title was solely given as Nargis as saying she wanted 5 stitches to shut a head wound suffered when she was hit by a steel object.

“They pushed everyone away and compelled us to go away whereas chasing us with their spray, weapons and steel gadgets,” she mentioned.

“The Taliban saved cursing, utilizing abusive language.”

“Don’t recognise the Taliban or legitimise them”

A 2nd day of protests held by courageous ladies in Kabul. The West & nations within the area have already deserted Afghan ladies. However their recognition of the Taliban might make issues even worse for them

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She participated in ladies’s protests in Kabul right this moment for equality. That is what the Taliban did to her.

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“We had been surrounded by armed Taliban from all sides,” mentioned one other girl recognized by the Occasions as Rukhshana.

“They requested us to go away and cease the protest,” she mentioned. “Among the Taliban beat us … They handled us like animals.”

Courageous Afghan ladies protest in #Kabul.

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“We had been solely launching a easy protest,” she mentioned. “We needed to ask for our rights via this rally and present that we exist. We’ve labored exhausting, we’ve got studied and struggled, supplied sacrifices, misplaced our husbands.”

She mentioned the protests is not going to cease.

“We’ll proceed our battle till we get our rights again on this authorities. They took over our nation by the pressure of their weapons.”