Women and girls had to wear the burqa and were forbidden to wear colourful clothes beneath their burqa. Girls and women were not allowed to work outside their home or even leave their home without being accompanied by a male relative. The people under Taliban rule were effectively deprived of everything that makes life worth living, and forced into a nightmarish existence of terror and melancholic gloom. Just reading the restriction placed by the Taliban on the people of Afghanistan, is harrowing enough. The book describes life under Taliban rule, in the same way that holocaust testimonies tell of the horrors of the genocide of the Jews by the Nazis. As the Taliban were backed by Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, and as many of the Taliban were Pakistanis, Arabs and Chechens, and not all Afghans, this was also partially a foreign influenced occupation. Afghanistan went first through Communist rule (1978-1992) and then rule by the Islamo-Fascist Taliban.
A proud nation subjected first to genocidal Nazi occupation and the to Soviet backed Communist tyranny. In a sense then Afghanistan has had a similar history to Poland before her. We also read, as some of her family fought against the Soviet Occupation (1979-1989) of that horrifying period in the history of Afghanistan.
A fascinating and horrifying expose of life in Afghanistan under the Taliban (1996-2001), and the life of Latifa's family during and before this.
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