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Stoning
in the Stadium
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| A Photo of Ghazi Stadium |
Yesterday, one middle-aged woman and a
middle-aged man were
stoned to death for crimes they supposedly committed. During the half time
break in a soccer game at Ghazi Stadium, Afghanistan, the Taliban dragged these
two people out into ditches and then one member of the Taliban stoned both the
man and woman to death. The crowd at first did not mind the sight at all and
they chanted but they soon stopped either because their throats were dry or the
sight sickened them. These stonings have been going on almost
every day in
Ghazi Stadium. The clean up workers, after the two were stoned to death,
attempted to clean up the blood spots by kicking dirt on the and filling in the
ditches. The match between the two teams soon continued as if nothing had
happened. -Mostafa JH
The Taliban
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| Four Members of the Taliban |
On August 8, 1998, the Taliban captured a city in Northwest Afghanistan. The fall of this city gave control of
almost every major city and any significant territory to the Taliban. After taking control, the Taliban went on a frenzy,
killing people in city streets, residential areas, and markets. The Taliban took no prisoners killing any thing that moved.
Later,
the Taliban followed their ways by massacring Hazaras in May 2000 and in January 2001. These massacres were serious violations
of human rights by the Taliban. These rights continued to be violated so greatly that the neighboring counties such as Pakistan
and Iran were asked to protect Afghanistan refuges within their countries to protect them from the Taliban. -Omid
TK
Poor Conditions
in Orphanages
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| Children in an Afghani Orphanage Eat Their Evening Meal |
Orphanages should be a safe haven for children
without
parents or legal guardians.
Are they
though? Many Afghan orphanages are
facing severe financial problems, and are being forced to do the absolute worst-selling
their children. The Taliban has been
offering money to orphanages in exchange for children that will unavoidably be sexually
assaulted. Children are not being given
enough food- a small orphanage in Kabul
can barely afford to feed their children bread and tea for breakfast and
dinner. No Lunch. The children have few beds
and fewer
blankets. The children die of the cold
during the winter. Medical care is
nonexistent.
The directors of the orphanages can do nothing
though. If the Taliban does not receive one child by
pay, they take more by force.
Many of
the directors have spent their entire life’s savings, and sold everything they
own to keep the orphanages running. This
is not something that they do for themselves, but rather for the children who
never received a fair chance because of Afghanistan’s poor conditions. -Azar AS
Taliban
Official Looses his Eye
There has recently been a report of a man and a Taliban
official who broke out into a fight. Due
to the wishes of the Taliban official the other members of the Taliban did not
intervene. In the begging
of the fight
the official had the man beat until a little boy wielding a slingshot stepped
in and shot the official in the eye. The
official has currently been hospitalized and is expected to make a full
recovery with loss of eye sight out of his left eye. The boy and the Afghan managed to escape and
people have been searching for them, no word however has gotten out on their location. -Waziri TS
Suicide
Attempt in Islamabad Pakistan
In Islamabad, Pakistan, a young Afghan boy is found with his wrist sliced
open on a hotel bathroom. The man that found the boy claims to have come from
the United States
to rescue him from an orphanage. He also
claims to be his uncle. Authorities don’t know why the young boy attempted suicide,
but the uncle gave a theory. The uncle claimed to have promised the young boy
to never let him go back to an orphanage. But something came up and the uncle
told the boy that he might have to break his promise. Nothing is positive yet
and the young boy is seeking treatment. -Sanya
AM
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