Warning: This article may include info that
is undesirable and will upset many of us, still it is the truth and shows the
real life for many of the young children in Afghanistan.
She was 8-year old and we call her Fareeba.
The story you will be reading about her is telling us that she did not make it
to a second night of her wedding nor did she make it to her 9th or 10th
birthday. The story came from a village in the district of Nimruz provincen in
Afghanistan, but we can see it as one of many similar stories describing the
sadness in today lives for children in Afghanistan.
A medical doctor assigned in the main hospital in Zaranj city, the
capital of the province, was “made aware” of the incident and that
it was “too late to do anything for her” as well the “remote
area didn’t allow them to do anything”.
Fareeba was just 8 years old and any
normal human being will understand the fact that she knows nothing about sex or
wedding or making love or virginity or sexual related topics; not even at a
basic level for two reasons, one being that, ”she’s just a child ” and
that in these parts of the country, nobody knows anything about these things
nor they are given trainings or education about a healthy sexual life.
The mullah takes off Fareebas clothes as well as his owns and with
apparent so much happiness approaches her for sexual intercourse with the
8-years-old bride.
Because of the Mullah’s huge physique he threw himself on
her and started to penetrate the girl’s vagina. After several tries that led
him to failure to penetrate her vagina, the Mullah was frustrated. He failed
because the 8-years-old girl who was about to die was physically thin and had a
very tight vagina opening.
The Mullah’s animal behavior, sourced him to take out the sharp knife
that he always carried with himself in his pocket and tore apart the girl’s
vagina from the clitoris side upwards as well as tore it downwards towards her
anus in order to make the vagina larger enough so he can enter his penis into
her vagina. Naturally, she started to bleed in a very bad amount, but the
mullah was too annoyed for not being able to have sex with her, to care for
what he did or her bleeding or her wounds that he gave her.
Fareeba had her scarf stuffed in her mouth, crying and trying to not
raise her voice because others were there in the room adjacent to or outside. It
is a rule in some of the areas in Afghanistan that the groom brings out a piece
of cloth that he cleaned his wife’s hymen blood with it as a proof that the
girl was virgin.
The Mullah entered his penis into
the girl’s severely bleeding vagina and had sexual intercourse with her on a
blood-covered bed, and then got up and cleaned himself with a cloth. The girl,
who now has lost everything, was bleeding and there was nobody to help her
neither could the Mullah ask for help as it was a shame for him and the girl’s
family (who were sitting over a cup of tea in the other room, would kill him).
Our 8-years-old Fareeba bled and went
into a traumatic shock because of both forced sex as well as severe bleeding.
She had lost so much blood, it was impossible to stop. Early in the morning
around 5 when the sun was about to rise, she passed away.
According to the Mullah, she was pale and her eyes were open when she
died. The bed, as he described, was all red with her blood and she was lying in
her blood only. No cloth beneath her was recognizable and everything was in
dried blood because a whole night had passed on the blood. Pale, because she
had lost all her body’s blood. Her eyes were open as she was shivering when she
died and her hands were tied in a praying position, saying her death time
prayer. The Mullah called in the same person and asked him to clean up the mess
around and prepare a reason to tell the others for her death. Because the man
was a close friend or family of the mullah, he did whatever he could, including
every piece of cloth that was bloody. They wrapped her in a piece of white
clothes and called the others that she has passed away.
That morning her family mourned her death in the saddest manner without
looking for proper explanation about her death, and then took her to wash her
body as a religious ritual.
The Mullah, powerful and with great
influence in the village, none of the women who washed the girl’s body dared to
ask or seek the reason for the wounds around her vagina. 10 am or they rallied
the now-dead 8-years-old Fareema to the graveyard and buried her.
Her life ended.
But the story was not buried, many
near the mullah who knew everything, were very upset and shared the story so it
could be told. Another among doctors in the village who treated the girl when
she was 4-5 years old asked not to be named but said: ”he was deeply saddened that
incidents like that still happen in Afghanistan”. He called it one of
the reasons of Afghanistan no going forward: People’s idiocy and uncivilized
behaviors and traditions.
I found this story and felt that I
havet o write it and showing others of the cruelty still excisting in the
country.
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