{"id":29058,"date":"2012-11-29T15:27:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T13:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=29058"},"modified":"2012-11-29T15:27:11","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T13:27:11","slug":"the-problem-is-not-only-taliban-i-afghanistan-15-year-old-girls-throat-was-cut-family-refusing-marriage-asia-news-29058","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/the-problem-is-not-only-taliban-i-afghanistan-15-year-old-girls-throat-was-cut-family-refusing-marriage-asia-news-29058\/","title":{"rendered":"The problem is not only the Taliban in Afghanistan \/15-year-old girl’s throat was cut by family for refusing the marriage \/ Asia News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brutality is normal in the life of Afghan women, A 15-year-old girl in Afghanistan has been murdered after her family refused a marriage proposal.<\/h1>\n

The teenager had her throat slit as she was carrying water from a river to her village home in the northern Kunduz province on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Two men have now been arrested over the attack.<\/p>\n

Police said one of suspects had earlier proposed to the girl but the offer had been rejected by her family.<\/p>\n

A police spokesman added: “The two men attacked her and slit her throat with a knife.<\/p>\n

“They were arrested and are in police custody.”<\/p>\n

Extreme violence against women and girls remains a major problem in the conservative Muslim nation more than a decade after US-led troops brought down the notoriously brutal Taliban Islamist regime.<\/p>\n

Figures from Oxfam show 87% of Afghan women have experienced physical, sexual or psychological violence or forced marriage.<\/p>\n

Last month a 20-year-old woman was beheaded by her husband’s family in the western province of Herat after she refused to become a prostitute, police said. Four people were arrested over the brutal killing.<\/p>\n

And in September, five people were arrested over the public flogging of a 16-year-old girl for allegedly having an affair.<\/p>\n

The girl was whipped 100 times in front of village elders and family members in the central Ghazni province. Her alleged boyfriend was fined.<\/p>\n

Unmarried girls are often confined to the home and forbidden from maintaining any contact with men outside the immediate family.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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