KABUL: Two women are dead, sources confirm, after a rare protest in the Afghan capital turned lethal. The demonstration, organised by a small group of women demanding the right to work and study, was met with force. Witnesses describe armed men in plain clothes opening fire on the crowd.
The British embassy in Kabul has issued a statement condemning the violence, calling it an assault on fundamental human rights. But on the ground, the reality is more complex: a regime that brooks no dissent, a populace living in fear, and the bodies of those who dared to speak. The Taliban, in control since 2021, has systematically erased women from public life.
This protest, one of the first in months, was a rare flash of resistance. It was met with bullets. Two women are dead.
The embassy's words will not bring them back.
