Women show Courage in Afghanistan

Afghan women chant during a women’s rights protest against Taliban abuses, Kabul, Afghanistan, August 13, 2022. © 2022 Oriane Zerah-Abaca-Sipa via AP Images

Watch one or two videos of their defiant marches all across the country, showing incredible bravery in the face of brutal thuggery.

These most recent protests have not just been about the Taliban denying secondary education to women and girls, which has been the driver of many protests over the past year. Demonstrators in the past few days are also expressing anger at Friday’s horrific suicide attack on the Kaaj Educational Center in Kabul.

The bomber murdered at least 43 people and injured twice that number. Most of the victims were young women from Afghanistan’s Hazara community, which has often been the target of abuses and attacks by both the Taliban and the Afghan branch of ISIS.

This latest slaughter has stoked the outrage of Afghanistan’s women and girls, with more protests around the country and Hazaras defiantly vowing to return to class.

The thugs can beat and kill the body, but they cannot destroy the human spirit, striving for freedom. – Human Rights Watch