Chara G. Garmon
12/4/08
SOC 202
8:32 PM
An article that was published on November 25, 2008 about 10 militants arrested caught my attention as soon as I visited the New York Times website. It is about a week old but this article is worth writing about.
The police in the Kandahar Province of Afghanistan arrested 10 Taliban militants that confessed to the attacks of a group of Afghan schoolgirls in which their faces were burned with acid. The girls were attacked while walking to their high school. Two men on motorcycles came up beside them and splashed what appeared to be battery acid on them. There was a team put together that went to Kandahar to evaluate the suspects and the case in general that consisted of officials from the Interior Ministry and the office of the attorney general in the capital, Kabul. The militants that reportedly confessed to their involvement in the attack were paid 100,000 Pakistani rupees or $1,275 by a high-ranking Taliban member for each girl that they burned. Officials said their punishments would be determined after the investigation is completed. Two of the girls were reported as being hospitalized with their faces burned and blackened.
This is absolutely saddening. These girls were simply walking to school, trying to receive an education which is already such a hot topic in countries such as this one. This could be comparative to a drive-by executed by a gang in the United States to a certain extent but I’ve never heard of anything so heartless and violent being done to innocent bystanders. When I saw this article I knew that I wanted to comment on it. I feel that women’s rights have improved in a small way in Afghanistan so I’m hoping that their punishments will be handled correctly. Hopefully, they will not receive any leniency.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/world/asia/26afghan.html?ref=asia
3 comments:
This is a terrible but probably to somewhat effective scare tactic. These sorts of attacks are sure to carry on if money can be made from them.
Wow. This article is really shocking. It is a shame what people will do for money to survive in their environments. People will resort to anything for the promise of a dollar.
I remember you talking about this in your presentation. This article is shocking and very sad. It's hard to imagine having to worry about something that tragic as a young girl walking to school. I'm sure this doesn't help in furthuring education or women's rights.
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