When she herself falls ill, her family must travel to Pakistan for treatment. She treats women who have been beaten and raped and mutilated by their new woman-hating rulers. Latifa’s mother bravely runs a clandestine medical practice, treating women as best she can and obtaining drugs and equipment secretly from Pakistan. She tells how the Taliban prohibit women from working, and prohibit male doctors from treating women patients, thereby denying women any access whatever to healthcare.
She tells, for example, of women badly beaten with whips because they wore coloured shoes outside. She tells how she and her sister did not go out of the house, partly out of unwillingness to comply with new requirements such as full covering under a heavy burqa (including a face covering) and partly out of fear of the consequences of some accidental infringement. The new rulers spewed forth orders and rules that had little to do with the Koran or with true Sharia law, and everything to do with revulsion for and hatred of women. At that point, her life became ruled by fear and oppression the like of which you could not believe if you did not hear it from such a witness. Latifa was born in 1980 and led a life of relative freedom and independence until the Taliban seized power in 1996. Latifa is a pseudonym adopted by a young woman who grew up in Afghanistan when she travelled to Paris to talk about life in her country under the rule of the Taliban.
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