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After years of brutal repression by the Taliban, women in Kabul begin to gingerly pick up the pieces of their fractured lives but the fear remains. To be a women under the brutal Taliban rule was to be condemned to a life worse then hell. Taliban banned women from speaking or laughing lodly, attening school, riding bicycles or motor cycles, moving around without burqa, wearing make-up or shoes that "click". Retribution was severe and ranged from public whipping to spending months in jail.
"MY BEST YEARS WERE TAKEN AWAY FROM ME" Najiba Said 28, a former medical student who aspired to be a dentist, now hopes to resume her education after a traumatic gap of five years. She is one of te first female students to return to the Kabul University campus last week, 28-year old Najiba Said plucked up her courage and re-registered for pre-med classes that were suddenly interrupted five years ago when the Taliban seized power. She and her classmates kept their faces veiled as they shyly gave their names to administrators with who they had conversed opnly until September 1996. Still nervous about speaking to foreigners, Said recounted the afternoon of September 28 that year, when she learned her education had been banned: "I felt my world fall apart. I wept in anger because i had been made a prisoner without having committed a crime. "Said dreamt of becoming a dentist. But she spent the next four years in her family's three-room home, rarely leaving its mud-baked walls, helping her diabetic mother, care for her five younger siblings. "It was as if there was a long pause in my life." says Said. "I feel as though my best years were taken away from me."
"WE MUST FIND THE COURAGE TO BREAK FREE" Rida Azimi 25, returns to her job as a TV presenter shaking off years of depression. She wants to set an example for women to regain their confidence. The daugter of Hedayat, a former commercial pilot, and Sadika, a former elementary schoolteacher, Azimi began her news career at 15 when whe was still a high school student. Three years later, as she was finishing high school, the Taliban entered Kabul and cut her dreams short. Suddenly confined to home, Azmi says it took months before her sense of depression wore off. "I Knew I had to keep going, to kee p learning." She says. At night, Azimi read old journalism textbooks smuggled to her by a former teacher and the owner of a bookshop. During the days, she and her mother ran an illegal school for girls in the living room of their home. She says,"All I could think of was going outside and being free to walk the streets and talk to peple."
Well this might be a heart break news for the people, who, two months ago daydreamed of Taliban win.
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