The Taliban has increased the flogging of women. This  brutality will not end unless the international community holds the Taliban accountable. - Feminist Majority Foundation
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In March this year, the Taliban’s Supreme Leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, announced that the Taliban regime would resume the public stoning of women for crimes like adultery. The Taliban argues that this is “in line with Sharia and Islamic law” and will also punish other “moral crimes” in a similar fashion.   Since the Taliba returned […]
  • mommykink@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    3 months ago

    Guys, just one more invasion and we’ll save those poor backwards people from themselves. They just need like 1,092 3,765 10,462 31,211 more drone strikes.

    • Sternout@feddit.de
      3·
      3 months ago

      Military interventions can work for the better. But not if the goal is to exploit the country of course.

      • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 months ago

        It might have worked if Dubya hadn’t screwed up so badly. Then the Iraq invasion destroyed all chances of success.

  • NJSpradlin@lemmy.world
    4·
    3 months ago

    Let’s not forget all the shit the US was getting for withholding the Afghan government’s money when it collapsed and refusing to give it to the Taliban and the Afghan people, and the sanctions. Even after a military invasion and an attempt to bring democracy didn’t work, and sanctions and withholding their prior government’s money didn’t either. Not only did all of that not work, they were directly detrimental to the people that the US was trying to ‘help’.

    What do you expect the world to do now? Another long ground war? Sanctions that’ll starve the Afghan people?