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First Place
Paula Bronstein Getty Images
"BROKEN LIVES"
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Nazgul,35, a self-immolation victim
sits on her bed at the burn unti shrouded with her pink head scarf November
17,2006 at the Herat Regional hospital. 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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