First, her dreams of becoming a doctor were dashed by the Taliban’s ban on education. Then her family set up a forced marriage to her cousin, a heroin addict. Latifa* felt her future had been snatched away.
“I had two options: to marry an addict and live a life of misery or take my own life,” said the 18-year-old in a phone interview from her home in central Ghor province. “I chose the latter.”
Every Afghan who sheltered and supported Taliban or did not fight them on their way to Kabul. Including women. If not fighting (which they could) they could have at least motivate their men or sons…or given intel. They didn’t. A small minority did -to be fair- but the majority didn’t.