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‘Despair is settling in’: female suicides on rise in Taliban’s Afghanistan (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 year ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/news@beehaw.org

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First, her dreams of becoming a doctor were dashed by the Taliban’s ban on education. Then her family set up a forced marriage to her cousin, a heroin addict. Latifa* felt her future had been snatched away.

“I had two options: to marry an addict and live a life of misery or take my own life,” said the 18-year-old in a phone interview from her home in central Ghor province. “I chose the latter.”

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[–] Kwakigra@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm not bashing the Guardian, and out of widespread publications I would definitely say they are among the best. My criticism is based on their primary and secondary audiences residing in places whose governments' actions have rendered them incapable of assisting Afghanistan or its people. As a side note my first exposure to The Daily Mail was when it was being distributed for free at the airport, and it made me so angry I threw it in the trash with much more force than I realized. Awful racist rag.

Edit: I'm suggesting in my previous comment that Guardian readers are already likely to support refugees or else they would be reading the Sun or the Daily Mail instead.

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

I'm still not entirely sure, what your point is. Don't report things already known to be bad? You seem to be enjoying using overly complex sentences, but you don't actually say anything worth typing.