DMB
05 Apr 2009, 10:19 AM
This article (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6036521.ece) is interesting because it shows how some women show great courage, but that it is a hellishly uphill struggle.
One of the country’s leading actresses, Paween is among a number of prominent Afghan women who have been forced to leave the country in recent months. Others include a leading policewoman who received a letter from the Taliban saying she had been sentenced to death. The letter said she would be next after Malalai Kakar, head of the crimes against women unit in Kandahar, who was gunned down with her son last September.
...Last summer she appeared in a production of the Shakespeare comedy Love’s Labour’s Lost, staged by a French director, after which she began to receive death threats. People in turbans came on motorbikes, saying: “Don’t act or you’ll be killed.” Her husband was also threatened. “They told him, ‘You pimp, letting your wife on TV. If you’re a real man you’ll beat her and kick her and take her back to Khost’.”
...When she tried to register a case with the police, they asked for a bribe. She took her children into hiding and spent three months trying to get help. Eventually she ended up at the national security office, where she was warned off, on pain of also ending up dead.
There seem to be so many who just hate women.
One of the country’s leading actresses, Paween is among a number of prominent Afghan women who have been forced to leave the country in recent months. Others include a leading policewoman who received a letter from the Taliban saying she had been sentenced to death. The letter said she would be next after Malalai Kakar, head of the crimes against women unit in Kandahar, who was gunned down with her son last September.
...Last summer she appeared in a production of the Shakespeare comedy Love’s Labour’s Lost, staged by a French director, after which she began to receive death threats. People in turbans came on motorbikes, saying: “Don’t act or you’ll be killed.” Her husband was also threatened. “They told him, ‘You pimp, letting your wife on TV. If you’re a real man you’ll beat her and kick her and take her back to Khost’.”
...When she tried to register a case with the police, they asked for a bribe. She took her children into hiding and spent three months trying to get help. Eventually she ended up at the national security office, where she was warned off, on pain of also ending up dead.
There seem to be so many who just hate women.