• PugJesus@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    "I asked one Taliban brother, what do I feed my children if I don’t earn? He said give them poison but don’t come outside your home," she says. “Two times the Taliban government gave me some money, but it is nowhere close to enough.”

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      11 months ago

      You can accuse the Taliban of a lot of things, but not that they aren’t thinking practically.

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      11 months ago

      That part stuck with me. The Taliban would rather children die en-mass then women sell knickknacks on a street corner.