On our way back, I ask Zubeida to leave the medicines at my place. She could take one every morning when she comes. She weeps staring into her palms. She says that she doesn’t know which shame is better. Living everyday knowing her husband has raped her ever since they have been married or putting him away in a lock up and letting everyone know where he is and why.

When George. W. Bush’s troops stormed into the Afghan soil flying the American flag as high as it never had been in the past, Bush proclaimed, “today the women of Afghanistan are free!” The authenticity of their so-called movement from ‘oppression’ to ‘freedom’ is debatable. As the elections drew near, the Karzai government gradually began to appease the fundamentalist Muslim clerics, especially the Shia clerics

 
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