Human Rights Slide Show Women

Killing Women in Afghanistan; Taliban Kill with bullets and Men with Knives

Jade-Abresham(Silk Way)Weekly: After the Kabul fell violence against women has increased they are killed in different ways every day. The cases published in the media show some women have killed themselves due to domestic violence. Some women have been killed charging them with love and illegal affairs by their husbands, one of the men of the family, and even the Taliban.
The type of killing of women is shocking and horrifying; men killed them with a knife and Taliban by a bullet. For example, on 8 June 2022, the Taliban shot and killed a 30-year-old woman before the eyes of her children in Daresuf district of Samangan province and charged her with illegal affairs with a man.

Ghor

Local security officials of Taliban say, on 17 June, a woman named Freshta shot killed herself in Saghar district of Ghor. The motive behind the killing is not known, but the local police sources say she killed herself after having a quarrel with her sisters.

Helmand

On 16 June, a 10-year-old girl was shot killed in Sangin district of Helmand. The local sources say she had been playing with the gun when it suddenly fires and kills the girl.

Urozgan

Local sources say a midwife has been killed mysteriously in Deh rawod district of Urozgan province.

Health workers in Dehrawod say she had been killed due to misuse of medicine. However, the reason of this midwife is not clear yet.

Takhar

Local sources say that on 17 June, detained 30 Takhar university students who had gone to a park on Friday. Taliban have provided no clarifications on this.

Qundoz

Local sources in Qandahar say unknown men have killed a women named Fariha in her home bathroom in the night. Fariha taught in “Nasrullah Shahid” school in Qundoz. But some media have mentioned her as an employee of the Department of Education.

Local sources say she had been threatened to death by some unknown people in “Chehel Dukhtaran” area of police district 3 of Qundoz. However, some other sources say she had been beheaded due to loving a man, by his family members. when Fariha “local sources said.

Faryab

Local sources say that a-19-year-old young woman had been beheaded with a knife by her wife in Faryab province.

Kandahar

Local sources say that on 16 June, a man killed his daughter some months ago, and now he has killed 3 members of a family. Local sources say that the young daughter of this man had run away with a man, he caught his daughter 8 months ago and killed her and now he has killed 3 members of the family of the man whom his daughter had run away with him.