Blinded

by: Nicole Griffin

“We were on the way to school when two men on motor bikes stopped next to us. One of them threw acid on my sister’s face; I tried to help her, and then they threw acid on me, too,” a statement made by a sixteen year old victim of the barbaric act that she endured. The previous statement has revealed the truth about the insurgents view on women receiving education. In the past during the reign of the Taliban, women were forbidden to attend school, in which changed when the United States declared war. Two men were involved in the crime against the girls, using water pistols filled with battery acid as their weapon in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan. Two girls were actually blinded by the incident and are still being treated in a local hospital, as two other girls have been treated and released from the hospital. The students were easily identifiable by the black pants and white shirts with head scarfs, which made them easy targets for the insurgents. “These cowardly acts reflect how dishonorable the insurgents truly are,” stated Gen. David Mckiernan, “No one can honestly say they are fighting for the people, and then purposely attack innocent women and children. It is quite questionable that the insurgents “care” about their people if their attempting to end their lives. It is a awful reality to be able to have vision one day and see the math problems and the read educational literature, and all in a matter of seconds become completely blinded and severely burned by men who have their opinions of what is right and what is not. The lives of these girls have been dramatically changed and deserve some sort of justice to possibly heal some of their internal wounds of the injustice.
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/12/afghanistan.acid.attack/index.html