Mursal victims of domestic violence

We are three sisters, our mother died ten years ago, so five months later after her death, our father remarried a woman in Kabul. We were happy that she, our second mother/stepmother, would soon meet our mother's deficiency by assuming her responsibility and she would give us the love and affection we were deprived of. But we were shocked to see her harsh behavior even on the second day of her marriage. She started treating us badly, shouting at us, insulting us, and turning deaf to us while talking. She even started humiliating us in front of our kith and kin. She would often keep us under lock and key. The thing that really disturbed us was the indecent, offensive, and abusive words/language that she would use for us in spite of the fact we were/are unmarried. She would curse us all the time and would make us work even in chilly cold weather. Our father was also disturbed by the way she treated us. He remarried for our sake and wanted to see us happy, but all this really discouraged him. He advised her many times, but it would go unnoticed. For ten years, we experienced torture, when we grew up, we raised our voices to get rid of this violence and hell-like life. One day, my stepmother very severely beat me and after that, I made up my mind to escape from this place to seek refuge in the Safe Haven Centre through the support of a classmate. I am still thankful to her for her assistance in fleeing from torture. One day my father came to the shelter, and instead of solacing, he burst out at me saying why I fled from home. He did not try to console me but rather increased my discomfort and agony. His harsh words still echo in my ears telling “me why I didn’t die at birth time, why he helped me grow up while leaving said ‘stay in the shelter forever until I marry or die. I was five years old when my mother passed away, and till now, we have not seen any pleasant days in life, and my siblings have been displaced and living in a distressing situation with my cousin. We had a very happy life before the passing away of my mother. I have a message for all parents, kindly do not destroy your children's lives and try to be kind and support them as parents are the only heroes in their childhood life. I want all families to stop violence against girls and give them equal rights as boys. Life without family is hard but I had come here to live a peaceful life in a peaceful environment without oppression, torture, and violence. In the end, I would like to thank “Human rights Watch and Media Organizations” for raising the victims' concerns and voices of victims who suffered physical, psychological, and mental violence, they need our consolation and humanitarian support. In the end, once again Mursal requests parents, to please stop family violence against women and girls so that their precious life may not go wasted”.

We are three sisters, our mother died ten years ago, so five months later after her death our father re-married a woman in Kabul. We were happy that she, our second mother/step mother would soon meet our mother deficiency by assuming her responsibility and she would give us the love and affection we were deprived of. But we were shocked to see her harsh behavior even on the second day of her marriage. She started treating us badly shouting at us, insulting us, turning deaf to us during talking. She even started humiliating us in front of our kith and kin. She would often keep us under lock and key. The thing that really disturbed us was indecent, offensive and abusive words/language that she would use for us in spite of the fact we were/are unmarried. She would curse us all the time and would make us work even in chilly cold weather. Our father was also disturbed by the way she treated us. He remarried for our sake and wanted to see us happy, but all this really discouraged him. He advised her many times, but it would go unnoticed. For ten years, we experienced torture, when we grew up, we raised our voice to get rid of this violence and hell-like life. One day, my stepmother very severely beat me and after that, I made up my mind to escape from this place to seek refuge in the Safe Haven Centre through the support a classmate. I am still thankful to her for her assistance fleeing from torture. One day my father came to the shelter, and instead of solacing he burst out at me saying why I fled from home. He did not try to console me rather increased my discomfort and agony. His harsh words still echoing in my ears telling “why I didn’t die at the birth time, why he helped me grow up, while leaving said ‘stay in the shelter forever until I marry or die. I was five years old when my mother passed away, and till now, we did not see any pleasant day in life, and my siblings have been displaced and living with a distressing situation with my cousin. We had had a very happy life before passing away of my mother. I have a message for all parents, kindly do not destroy your children lives and try to be kind and support to them as parents are the only heroes in their childhood life. I want all families to stop violence against girls and give them equal rights as boys. Life without family is hard but I had come here to live a peaceful life in peaceful environment without oppression, torture and violence. In the end, I would like to thank “Human rights Watch and Media Organization” for raising victims’ concern and voice who suffered physical, psychological and mental violence, they need our consolation and humanitarian support. At the end once again Mursal requests parents, to please stop family violence against women and girls so that their precious life may not go wasted”.