some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
on 23 Jun 23:43
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She had never met her husband before their arranged wedding in the summer of 2024. Each time her family asked to see him, they were told he was shy. It was only on the wedding day, relatives say, that Fatima understood what had been hidden from her: her husband had severe intellectual and physical disabilities and could not eat, wash or dress himself without help.
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The decree also legalises child marriage. It allows male relatives to marry off children and says that once those children reach puberty, they may ask a court to nullify the marriage in limited circumstances.
They did do that to some successes like the (very small) Female Tactical Platoon but it was very hard to meet the targets when it’s going directly against the grain of the traditional culture so they had to keep revising them down. In joining they would suffer consistent sexual harassment (which they had no means to report and wasn’t investigated even in a case with video proof released to the public) and be looked down on by the community, they would often be set to make tea and clean whatever their job actually was, no clear paths of advancement and little to no mentors who had paved the way before them, and they were on the Taliban’s kill on sight list. So you had to be in a pretty desperate situation to consider it.
NATO is responsible for this mess, indiscriminate bombing, propping unpopular and corrupt leadership, injustices. Why would any afgan let alone women fight for them? To be abandoned by them once Taliban are back?
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Fucking nightmare.
That’s hardlg the worst of it, further on in the article it gets far more depressing
my goodness father there is so much empty land in these areas, man the fuck up
It would have been smart for NATO to recruit females to fight but it’s too late now.
www.wral.com/archive/17902880/
They did do that to some successes like the (very small) Female Tactical Platoon but it was very hard to meet the targets when it’s going directly against the grain of the traditional culture so they had to keep revising them down. In joining they would suffer consistent sexual harassment (which they had no means to report and wasn’t investigated even in a case with video proof released to the public) and be looked down on by the community, they would often be set to make tea and clean whatever their job actually was, no clear paths of advancement and little to no mentors who had paved the way before them, and they were on the Taliban’s kill on sight list. So you had to be in a pretty desperate situation to consider it.
NATO is responsible for this mess, indiscriminate bombing, propping unpopular and corrupt leadership, injustices. Why would any afgan let alone women fight for them? To be abandoned by them once Taliban are back?
It is just sickeningly cruel