The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan “turns” the country 20 years back, as foreign diplomats and analysts aptly describe.
Two decades, essentially lost, in every way – both for the country and for its citizens, especially for women.
As can be seen from the images and videos that have come to light in recent days, the representatives of the “weaker sex” are the ones who are left behind, as men choose to leave the country by any means – even if it means that they will they… must be hung like “bunches” from a plane departing from Kabul, at the time it takes off.
At a time when the international community chooses to look away and condemn with… wishes, while it should have anticipated situations, for women the fear returns.
As early as the beginning of July, when the Taliban began occupying the first provinces in Afghanistan, the “nightmare” for working women began.
Taliban fighters stormed Azizi Bank in Kandahar and ordered nine workers to leave.
The Taliban, with guns in their hands, escorted the workers to their homes and ordered them not to return to work, according to the Al Jazeera network.
In fact, three workers and the bank’s manager told the network that the Taliban had informed them that male members of their family could take their place at the bank.
“It is really strange that you are not allowed to work, but now it is happening,” Nur Katera, 43, an employee of Azizi Bank, told Reuters.
The incident is indicative of what is going to happen to Afghan women from now on, after 20 years of fighting for equal rights.
From 1996 to 2001, when the Taliban were in power in Afghanistan, women were not allowed to work, young girls were not allowed to go to school and it was compulsory for all women to wear a headscarf. to go out had to be accompanied by a male member of their family.
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More specifically, according to State Department reports in 2001, the eight rules that applied to women, having been imposed by the Taliban regime, were:
1. They had to be covered with clothes from the top to the nails.
2. They were not allowed to work, except in very specific cases.
3. They were not allowed to go to school.
4. They had limited access to the Health system.
5. They could not leave their home without being accompanied by a male member of their family.
6. When they went out, they got on special buses, while in order to get into a taxi, they had to be accompanied again by a man, their relative.
7. In general, women could not walk on the street without being accompanied by a man who is their relative.
8. The windows of their houses had to be painted so that no passers-by could see inside.
It is logical, after all this, for women to fear for their future and for what will be born after the return of the Taliban to power.
Especially if one considers that, in case of violation of any of the above rules, women were punished with beatings and, in many cases, with death by stoning.
