Tears of the girls sold by their starving
families: The Taliban pledged a new future
for Afghan women... but the reality is
famine and poverty so extreme that parents
are making an unimaginable choice
Posted By: Ribicon, 11/12/2021 7:28:32 PM
Seven-year-old Zohra sits on the dusty doorstep of her family's hut in the province of Ghor, north-west Afghanistan, playing with her younger sister's hair and pulling the hood on her red fleece over her ears as bitter winds sweep their settlement. As dusk falls, the family starts a fire to cook dinner outside. Zohra and five of her siblings—she also has a 20-day-old sister—will eat bread made out of their last remaining food: a bucket of flour that sits on the floor. Hunger is destroying the children's health. Their father, Qadir, 35, used to work as a labourer, earning up to £2 a day,
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There's a huge propaganda push for Western nations to import as many imperiled Afghanis as possible, which would serve only to help the Taliban by easing any domestic unrest. Some people say let Muslims be Muslims if that's what they want, but in Free America, where we have to take a shot or be fired, we see photos of mean men with rifles supplied by the Pentagon and girls with tears in their eyes and say, can't we import them all as refugees?