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Contributing Organization
TSOS
Home Country
Afghanistan
Description
Bahram tells the story of the Afghanistan's 1992 government collapse and subsequent civil wars that destroyed the city of Kabul. "There was war in every alley, every house, every area and every village. 60,000 people were killed." Their family emigrated to Pakistan and after living there for some time, some relatives of a friend from their village travelled to Pakistan and required lodging so they stayed with Bahram's family. In some developing and under-developed countries, the custom of arranged marriage to child and infant daughters is practiced. These house guests demanded their one-year-old daughter be given in marriage to a man in the guest's family who has close ties to Jihadist commanders and continued to pressure the family with hostility. It continued for years. They sent her to India in order to hide her but she was discovered and threatened. Then they fled to Turkey to escape the demands, leaving the daughter to live in secret in Kabul She has been hiding for five or six years. Bahram had been a police officer in the Ministry of Interior, in the journalism section and because of this and the family enemy situation with his daughter, they cannot return to Afghanistan. "They cut women's noses. They cut their noses and their tongues. We were forced to come here."
Document Type
Interview
Interview Date
6-30-2016
Interview Location
Greece
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