Afghan warlords gang-rape a young gril: family cry for justice

Al-Jazeera TV on December 6, 2009 report about this family:

Two-years after she was beaten and raped by eight men, fourteen-year-old Samiya has yet to see justice.

Her story stands in contrast to Western claims that the lot of women in Afghanistan has improved since the US-led invasion.

Seven of the eight men who attacked Samiya were arrested, but her family believes their daughter's rapists have powerful connections and are looking for revenge.

Samiya and he family live in fear and her father, whose story Al Jazeera reported on two years ago, has been imprisoned by a local leader after he sought justice for his daughter.

'Nobody cares'

Eight years after the US-led invasion that was supposed to liberate Afghanistan, women are still living without the most basic rights, vulnerable to abuse and often deprived of education.

"Nobody cares about women," Fatana Gailini, the chairperson of Afghanistan's women's council, told Al Jazeera.

"People are not well-educated about how to go to the police, or the courts [to report abuse]. The government is full of corruption. We need strong political and economic support in Afghanistan."

She warned a lack of funds was threatening charities for women and called for greater support from the government and donors.

"So much money came to Afghanistan in the last five years, but there hasn't been a positive change to women's lives. We hope the new cabinet coming in will change that," she said.

Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president who won re-election in November, is expected to announce his cabinet line up in the next few days.

http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2009/12/06/afghan-rape-victim-lives-in-fear.html

This clip is reported by T olo TV in Kabul on November 24, 2009.

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[serappia]

bastards pieces of shit, castrate the misogynists, paedo filth!!

[arsenalmanic]

dispicable, scum of the earth

[Georgemikejus]

@mssobriety1 No thank you. god can skip me and use my blessings on some starving children or babies born with aids...mysterious ways indeed.

[mssobriety1]

@DesiiParii I completely agree

[mssobriety1]

@Georgemikejus God is always watching a he DOES punish the wicked, you will notice this family have not given up their faith even in times of utter despair. Evil's are sent to try us by the Devil not God regardless of what faith we chose to keep.

May God bless you and this family

[Georgemikejus]

Where was allah? he should have done something.

[DesiiParii]

@damnislam

wat? this is not islamic.. omg it s the people who are to blame NOT ISLAM !

huh so we can say the same about christianity... the catholic priests that sexually abused children! buh no its not christianity to blame.. it are the people apart of religion.. no religion teaches this..

go educate urself fool

[damnislam]

keshwari ke rayis jomhooresh in karzaye koskesh bashe behtar az in nemishe

fuck islam and islamic goverment in afghanistan

[beeiijbii]

khak da sare karzi shawa bepadare arami ke pachai kada nametana ela kona jebesh khu pol porshuda dega chi mekhaia i mordagawe arami

[tarnanai]

We dont need taliban nor we need the warlords cuz they all have sold there souls allready so what we need is reall afghans in power afghan leader for afghan people karzai is a dog i am pashtoon from paktia but murda bad all the warlords and all thos who destroyed afghanistan and still doing long live afghans pashtoons,tajiks,hazara,uzbeck­s and turkmens