Posted on 09/22/2007 12:44:51 PM PDT by Global2010
More Young Afghan Women Committing Suicide
Fifteen year-old Fazela lies in an intensive care unit at Abdullah Ansari Hospital in Herat with burns across much of her body. Like many women from Herat who have tried to burn themselves to death during the past year, Fazela says she thought suicide was the only way to escape a physically and emotionally abusive husband she had been forced to marry.
"My name is Fazela. On that particular day when I burned myself, my husband -- who is also my cousin -- had a fight with me," she recalls. "He beat me. And after I was beaten, I poured kerosene over myself. Then I lit myself on fire. Before this, I really wanted to leave this house. But he took my burqa and did not let me go outside of the house. Now I really regret that I burned myself."
Fazela is being treated by doctor Abdullah Ardalan.
He tells RFE/RL that he has been closely monitoring cases of suspected self-immolation by women in Herat since the Afghan government sent a delegation to the city a year ago to investigate the alarming trend.
"Since the start of the Afghan solar new year [on March 22, 2004], we have registered 234 burn victims, and 84 of those women have died as a result of their burns," Ardalan says.
"Four or five of these women have been transferred to hospitals in Iran by their relatives. I believe that from the 84 victims who have died here, more than 60 of them are cases of suicide."
A member of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, who spoke to RFE/RL on condition of anonymity, says 184 of Herat's burn victims during the past year were women suspected
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Good old Taliban Ba&%*ds. Very disturbing visuals.
As a woman I say God Bless America.
And NOW is where on this issue?
Hillary said the Afgan women were better off under the Talban.
NOW is where they’ve always been. Focused on breaking down American traditions and culture. They could care less about women in general and only about themselves.
I would have torched the husband instead, and taken my chances.
That’s what my thought was.
Gets my vote...
NOW just wants to be sure that they can get abortions.
How now, brown NOW.
Bwahahaha....
Birds of a feather.
Good grief. This news is very disturbing and says alot about the stupid barbaric culture of the Taliban. We are hopefully creating a refuge for many of these women.
How many of these are suicides and how many are honor killings in the guise of suicides?
A question we cannot answer because we don’t know.
They can't you know.
Even if the pregnacy will ultimately kill both the mother and child.
The Afghan women were briefly freed of their burqas after
being liberated. However, the US State Dept and the UN
and the EU support slavery and women as owned objects.
So the burqas went back on. Too bad.
I have never heard this,where can I find out more?
The lethal dinner meal method would work better.
Mystery death.
Dang, it must get pretty hot in the desert under those burqas.
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