The Taliban government has “immediately” prohibited establishments from welcoming students.
by Ghazal Golshiri
In Afghanistan, women had feared this moment for a few weeks. Tuesday, December 20, the Ministry of Higher Education of the Taliban government announced, in a letter, the ban on Afghanes in a letter to follow studies in public and private universities “until further notice”. The decision was taken by the Cabinet of the Taliban government, which obliges all the establishments higher to apply this new order “immediately”.
Wednesday morning, Kabul had the appearance of a militarized city. The Taliban patrolled in the capital, especially around universities. Sumaya (who asked to be protected by a pseudonym for fear of reprisals) went, at 9 am, in the west of Kabul, to the university where she gives lessons in sports sciences. “When I arrived, my students were already waiting in front of the closed doors of the establishment,” she explains to the world through WhatsApp messaging. They were in disarray and crying, without knowing what to do. “The Young 27 -year -old woman tried to negotiate with the university guards so that they let them in. Without success. The students were forced to leave the place, depressed.
For two weeks, Sumaya and her colleagues have heard rumors about the very next ban on higher education for women. This is why they had done everything to accelerate the program and complete the current semester exams. Having grown up under the Old Regime, a period when Afghanes were encouraged to study and have activities in society, Sumaya, after her license in sports sciences, has passed exams to become a teacher. She refused to leave Afghanistan at the time of taking Kabul by the Taliban, in August 2021. Today, she may have to think about another choice. “Many of my students who are in the last year have not yet supported their end-of-studies memory. I do not know what they will become, she worries. constraint to exile, because, here, I can neither study nor work. “
a series of liberticide laws
This new Taliban decision, returning to power after the departure of the Americans, is part of a series of liberticidal laws towards the Afghanes. The doors of colleges and high schools have been closed to girls since the start of the school year 2021. The masters of the country, to the ultra-rigging interpretation of Islam, justify this decision by explaining that they are working on a “plan Global “and” Islamic “so that girls beyond 12 years can again have access to education. For the moment, no sign suggests that such a “plan” is being prepared.
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