Daily Beast writer Diana Falzone jumped into journalism mode after news broke about the chaos in Afghanistan. She reached out to a few different female reporters in the country on social media to get their perspective on what is happening, and what she heard from them is terrifying.
According to Falzone’s sources, whose stories were relayed to Molly Jong-Fast by Falzone on this bonus episode of The New Abnormal, the Taliban are beating people in the streets, including children. They’ve allegedly shot one woman and are going into homes in the middle of the night to film themselves shooting people who they think have worked with the United States. They’re reportedly even asking for the number of women in each household to marry them off—as Molly says, bringing women back to the dark ages.
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One of the female reporters Falzone spoke to said that she’s afraid to leave her home because “they will kill me.” “She said that it’s complete chaos,” Falzone explains. She says that they’ve all tried to leave the country, but it’s impossible or they’re afraid to leave their families behind to be killed.
The women, Falzone says, also feel like the United States abandoned them.
“They said the United States came here. We lived a new way of life, and now we’re going backward,” she says. “So I believe their hope is that somehow the United States will come in and fix this or that other allied countries will come in and fix this.”
Falzone plans on sharing these women’s stories while they hope that the Taliban doesn’t shut down social media. “That is their only bridge to the outside world for them to know,” says Falzone.
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