New Taliban penal code legalizes domestic violence against women
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The Taliban government in Afghanistan has quietly enacted a new penal code that allows husbands to physically punish their wives and children as long as it doesn't cause broken bones or open wounds. T...

The Taliban has quietly enacted a new penal code that allows husbands to physically punish their wives and children as long as it doesn’t cause broken bones or open wounds.

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  • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
    5·
    4 days ago

    It was very clear to me from the start that for a majority of the afghan people, life would get significantly worse under the Taliban.

    Except one of the reasons the Taliban took over the country as fast as they did is that the US backed government didn't even nominally control the majority of Afghanistan. The US-backed government was a rotten corrupt cesspool that gave its subjects marginally more civil rights at the cost of plunging the country into decades of civil/“civil” war and destroying any chance at development and progress due to its rampant corruption and incompetence. They did a couple of things right (though very half assed), but it’s downright comical to talk about “liberation” when two thirds of the population were illiterate. Not to say the Taliban are any better at these things, but at least the Taliban don’t have the world’s strongest military backing them.