Mi., 1.2.2023
WORLD journal | WELTjournal +
WORLD journal
Afghanistan – the girls of Kandahar
While the mullahs’ regime in Iran is trying to crush the women’s uprising in a bloody manner, women in neighboring Afghanistan are being almost completely banned from public life by the ruling radical Islamic Taliban. Since the Taliban took power in August 2021, life for women has become dramatically restricted: girls are only allowed to attend primary school and are excluded from secondary schools and universities. Without a male companion, women are hardly allowed to move around in the country and their right to work has been massively restricted. In the Kandahar region women are only allowed to sit in the back seat of a car, in the capital Kabul they are now even forbidden to walk in the park. The WELTjournal shows the impressive reportage by the Danish filmmaker Puk Damsgård from the summer of 2022. From Kabul to the remote province of Kandahar, Damsgård meets courageous people who are rebelling against the terror regime: like the operators of Radio Begum, the last radio station in the country by women for women. The teacher Rahilla who taught girls in a secret school. And she accompanies Matiullah Wesa, a teacher and human rights activist who has been fighting for his compatriots’ access to education since 2009. With his commitment to girls’ schools, he risks his life every day.
(Wh. am 2.Februar, ORF 2)
WELTjournal +
Grown up in Afghanistan – 20 years without peace
The second generation is now growing up in Afghanistan and has known nothing but war and oppression. Afghan boy Mir Hussain was seven years old when the US sent troops to Afghanistan after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks to drive out the radical Islamic Taliban. 20 years and a trillion dollars later, the Americans left – and the Taliban rule the country again. The WELTjournal + shows the story of Mir Hussain, who grew up during this time and now has three children himself. A camera team accompanied him the whole time and allows the viewer to take part in his life very closely. Phil Grabsky and Shoab Sharifi’s award-winning documentary spans 20 years of Mir’s life. He flees from war and hunger, can only go to school for a short time, then toils in the fields and in the coal mine.
(Wh. am 2.Februar, ORF 2)