The Other Afghan Women

In the countryside, the endless killing of civilians turned women against the occupiers who claimed to be helping them.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/the-other-afghan-women

Nearly every person Shakira knew had a story about #Dado. Once, his fighters demanded that two young men either pay a tax or join his private militia, which he maintained despite holding his official post. When they refused, his fighters beat them to death, stringing their bodies up from a tree. A villager recalled, “We went to cut them down, and they had been sliced open, their stomachs coming out.” In another village, Dado’s forces went from house to house, executing people suspected of being #Taliban; an elderly scholar who’d never belonged to the movement was shot dead.

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