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Paula Bronstein Getty Images
"BROKEN LIVES"
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The burned, bandaged body of
Simagul,22, a self immolation victim November 16,2006 at the Herat Regional
hospital in Herat, Afghanistan.Afghan women turn to self-immolation as a way
to commit suicide,choosing this method turns their life into a living hell.
There is an Afghan proverb: ' Your bones belong to your family but your
muscles belong to your husband'. The problems facing women in Afghanistan are
complex and are closely linked to their subordinate position in the Afghan
society where conservative Islamic laws and traditions dictate what a woman
is allowed to do in a male dominated world. Forced marriages, domestic
violence, poverty and lack of access to education are the main reasons for
suicide. Bibijan mourns the death of her second daughter, Guljan,18, on
November 14,2006. She died from self-immolation yesterday at the Herat
Regional hospital Burn unit with burns over 65% of her body in Herat,
Afghanistan. Bibijan lost her 15 year old daughter last year to self-burning
also and has 8 children left.
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