The Afghan Women Braving Taliban

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For the past two decades, women could study and work in Afghanistan. They could even play football. These brave Afghan women don't want to give in to the Taliban now

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00:00We are standing with our sisters.

00:17We will use the same football pitch that you used for execution, public execution and

00:23you used to shoot one of our sister in the penalty area.

00:27We will kick the ball from there and we are standing strong.

00:57They are so afraid, they are worried, they are scared, not only the players but also

01:22the activists, that they have nobody to go to, to seek protection, to ask for help if

01:31they are in danger.

01:34They are afraid that any time the door will be knocked.

01:52For someone as an activist who stood up and did everything possible to achieve and earn

02:11that identity as a women's national team player, to earn that budge on the chest, to have the

02:20right to play and represent our country, how much we were proud.

02:25We did everything possible.

02:27What we are seeing is a country collapsing.

02:32All the pride and happiness to be there, to empower women and men of the country, it's

02:40just like, it was just wasted.

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