‘Operation Enduring Slavery’: Afghan women betrayed and shunned by UN, ICC
Prameela K
Published on: 18 September 2021, 11:41 am
Besides USA and NATO, the United Nations and the International Criminal Court are equally responsible for leaving Afghan women in the lurch after the Taliban takeover. Fully aware of the crimes committed against them by the Taliban, these global bodies have done nothing but pass resolutions expressing concern about women and reiterating their rights, writes ANINDA DEY
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THE overflowing, ubiquitous blue burqa in Afghanistan in 1996-2001 symbolised the ultra-orthodoxy and the brutal imposition of Sharia by the Taliban during its first emirate. Publicly whipped for daring to go out unaccompanied by men, seen without the burqa or working, Afghan women saw deliverance in Operation Enduring Freedom in 2001, which dislodged the barbarians.
Twenty years later, the same global military powers, led by the USA, have surrendered to the savages, turning it into 'Operation Enduring Slavery' for Afghan women with the Sharia and the primitiveness back.
The gender apartheid has returned with male and female students segregated at universities, a new dress code imposed and women, except in the health sector, barred from working.
