As the Taliban continues to overrun major Afghan cities like Herat and Kandahar, many Afghan women are worried about their future under Islamist fundamentalist rule if the group takes control of the country.
If the Taliban launch an onslaught on Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital and largest city, Mariam Atahi, an Afghan women’s rights activist, told DW on Friday that she is scared the Taliban “would come and kill me.”
She claims she is afraid of Taliban retaliation because she has “advocated for women’s rights for the previous 20 years,” contradicting Taliban “ideologies and beliefs.”
“People are worried that the Taliban will take Kabul tomorrow night or the night after tomorrow, and they will be back in the same circumstances as in 1996,” Atahi added. “Afghan women, in particular, who have suffered so much under the Taliban dictatorship, are terrified of what may happen.”
