AFGHANISTAN – Earlier this week, CNN reported that amidst a growing humanitarian aid crisis, some families in Afghanistan are selling their young daughters into slavery or marriage in order to provide their other children with food.
CNN captured exclusive interviews with a nine-year-old girl, her father, and the 55-year-old man who purchased the girl.
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“They tell CNN they have no choice,” CNN reported, “but to sell their young daughters into some sort of twisted form of marriage.”
One father of the nine-year-old girl named Parwana, whose family is living in a displaced resident camp, was interviewed on camera, at great risk for his own safety. “I have no work,” he said, “no money, no food. I have to sell my daughter. I have no other choice.”
“My father,” Parwana told the camera, “who sold me because we don’t have bread, rice, and flour, he has sold me to an old man.”
The 55-year-old man bought Parwana for a little over $2,000 US dollars.
More than half of the Afghan population doesn’t know where their next meal is coming from. The money made from Parwana’s sale will help the family feed their other children.
CNN captured their meeting on camera. Parwana covered her face and cried.
During the meeting, Parwana’s father said, “This is your bride. Please take care of her.”
The man replied, “Of course I will take care of her.” He then pulled her by the arm out of the house.
Parwana tried to get away from him as he escorted her out of the home, but her mother helped the man force her to leave.
Parwana said she wanted to go to school to be a teacher.
Selling children into marriage has gotten more popular with the extreme economic and humanitarian aid crisis. When the Taliban took over, billions of dollars were frozen in the banks and wages haven’t been paid to many residents.
Over three million children under the age of five will face malnutrition in the coming winter months, CNN said.
While the US has pledged a billion dollars to help the Afghan people, only half has been sent due to the ruling of the Taliban and the international majority declining to recognize the terrorist’s leadership in the country.
The Taliban has spoken out, saying “We are asking aid agencies to come back and help these poor people,” one Taliban official said. “Otherwise, the crisis will worsen.”
The family in the photograph above is attempting to sell two daughters- one who is nine and one who is four- into marriage for $1,000 US dollars each.
The four-year-old told CNN that her family is attempting to sell her “because we are a poor family and have no food to eat.” When asked if she’s scared, the girl responded, “Yes I am.”
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Another father told the camera that he is “so ashamed” that he has to sell his 10-year-old daughter because he owes his 70-year-old neighbor money and can’t pay it back. He had borrowed money to feed his family.
The 10-year-old girl said, “If they push me to marry the old man, I will kill myself. I don’t want to leave my parents.”
CNN updated the report to say that the last girl pictured was set to be handed over to the elderly man in the “coming days.”
Of course, child marriage has been a problem before the Taliban resumed control of Afghanistan, but now it’s more prominent and out in the open, according to local journalists.
The UN predicts that if the humanitarian aid crisis isn’t addressed, by mid-2022, 97% of Afghans will be living below poverty level.
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This is JOE BIDEN’S FAULT. Women were part of the congress, they were being educated, they were able to work and bring in money to FEED their families. Now the Taliban asks for aide? tell the taliban to leave and we wiill send all the afghanis home to work and turn it into the USA II – thanks JOE – You are the reason for girls being sold to old men. They are as disgusting as YOU!
This is beyond SAD, and revolting ! Little children who will never have a childhood, or become educated, or be FREE, are being sold like merchandise in a shop ! They can thank Biden/Harris and the Democrat Party for this happening, by ALLOWING the Taliban to completely come back to power. This is EVIL !
And these people are Clueless Joe’s buddies.
“Let’s Go, Brandon!”
I would send this family $1,000 to save even 1 child from being sold to these disgusting pigs. These men who buy these young girls should be shot in the forehead immediately. If I were their mother, I wouldn’t give them out to these sick psycho pig-men, I will shoot those men and save my daughter. I would run, I would do everything I could including die for my children.
That is exactly what they want – money Trust me when Communist No Nothing News reports this its propaganda and the commercials for the poor people will start in droves (where does that money come from)
What about our Americans who were killed over there and the ones who are still there – will you give $1000 to those Americans – Let the Taliban sell the Billions in weapons Diaper China Joe left or have you done forgot who put these people in this predicament in the first place
Sadly Naomi – dieing for your children is exactly what would happen under Islamic law ( Shariah ) if you disobeyed and stood against your “Husbands’ ” will. This is as it was in the 12th Century, and still is in most Islamic countries – after all – the children belong to / are the property of “Your Husband” who can “Divorce ” you and abandon you at “His” will ! Who knows, maybe Snoozy Joe would like to have something similar in the “Good Old US of A” – Who indeed ?
Welcome to the “Real World” in Afghanistan. No cheap politics Please – this disgusting business was rampant before Biden ( although he may not be at the front of the queue to condemn it, given his well-known penchant for sniffing hair – amongst other things ! ) This is simply Islam in Action – evryone feeds off the poor – and Gives Thanks !!