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First Place
Paula Bronstein Getty Images
"BROKEN LIVES"
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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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