The Unseen Victims of Taliban Rule: Why Afghan Men Are Being Erased from the Human Rights Narrative
Table of Contents Introduction Why does the Taliban kill Afghan Men? Why are These Male Victims so Easily Overlooked? How did the Taliban Become Powerful Enough to do This? Why don't Afghans Simply Fight Back? The West's Selective Memory of Afghanistan And Now Afghanistan is Becoming a Tourist Destination Conclusion: Afghan Lives Should not be Divided Into Politically Useful Victims Introduction For five years, the Taliban have ruled Afghanistan. Their oppression of women and girls has rightly received enormous international attention. Women have been excluded from secondary and higher education, pushed out of much of public life, and subjected to a system of restrictions that the United Nations has described as deeply discriminatory and authoritarian. None of this should be minimized. But there is another Afghan tragedy that receives far less attention: the systematic killing, torture, disappearance and persecution of Afghan men under Taliban rule. This is not an argument ...
