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celebrations in india. i'm focused on how witnesses to the vibe and partition of the subcontinent. feed. 75 years after independence. ah, i'm british manager, welcome to the w news asia. glad you could join us. the thought about stake over have gone to stun nearly a year ago. has re shipped society, most of all for women, new laws restrict their movements education and dictate what they can wear. many were men protested against them earlier on, but a harsh crack down has driven local organizers underground. our next report looks at the price paid by women who day to demonstrate in public a dangerous display of solidarity cattle fo, who'd leads

a march, calling for freedom for justice, for women to be able to work that was before. now, cattle must work behind closed doors. i am here, she is covertly organizing a protest action to mark the anniversary of the taliban takeover van as adam, she says, this is the only way to get anything done. site actually la, scala, after our faces were recognized, they now know us, our photos were released and we gave interviews to the tv channels it on about on the tv channels, ada interviews and programs, ladonna. and now we are being chased. and this is a serious problem. so what that, that could i get a think she's paid a physical price for her activism here. she displays bruises and cuts from scuffles at protests. one time she says she fled her own home when the taliban were about to arrest her and broke her leg, jumping over the wall to escape. she also says she suffered a miscarriage during

a demonstration many he showed their faces at protests last year were later detained. summer suspected to still be in prison. others who were released fled to neighboring pakistan. the next woman requested not to have her name mentioned with they treated us very badly. they insulted us and told us to give away our organization. and they asked us which party we worked for and accused us of working for the resistance front. and they took away our phones for those who stayed behind afghan as then has become an increasingly dangerous place. and that has taken its toll. we have spent a very difficult and painful time. we have suffered more pain psychologically and physically. i'm currently not doing well mentally,

and my family members are also not doing well mentally. meanwhile, that protests continue. just not outdoors. these women have gathered to send a message to the world, calling for education, freedom, and access to work. the only safe place to do it is behind these walls and gentlemen offer more from colombo is samira. how me the amnesty international south asia campaigner or some europe. you're regularly in touch with women in afghanistan who have been forced to sit at home because of thought bon dictates. do they feel it's safe to go out and protest for their rights? thank you for having me. yes, based on the discussions and calls that i didn't make too. women in guys in afghanistan, not only did jonah once because of my work,

but also it seemed in family members that it is that they have it is quite a difficult situation right now for women and girls. enough, understand, especially if a woman would like to mobilize and they would like to go out on his sheets to the example. protest in one hand, the tolliver and half band, a protests earlier a couple of months ago. and i don't have a deductible. and of course used violence and where the, the did not allow, did with protest has to continue protest and what is the, what, what we have seen to patch and, and also what we have documented in the booth is that a majority of women protested were identified disappeared, it was addressed, it tortured and even they were threatened to death to you at a distance. it's quite a dangerous environment right now where women are working however,

they have not given up what i'm hearing, especially from the woman. well, i think what part of the protests are from the past, right. and that's what consumer to pull the people here just before the conversation with you. but it also particular that the thought about her role convert promises on women's rights the promises that they were making during the do hot on the thoughts. for instance, do you see a situation where the taliban will restore women's rights? and i don't. a i don't think so. i would like to say that when the taliban to cooperate in august last year. you know, some of the fancy promises they made, especially to international media and in meetings with international community. there was a shadow of hope that i had, but unfortunately the one year of total on an honest, on the way the have dismantled. for example,

ministry of home is that then the we have it consistently be having to use different policies and dicky, say on women's rights on how women should live in afghanistan in also the fact that they have failed to address the issue of goods education, which is a very straightforward thing, unfortunately, does not give me any hope and you know, they're made this promises to the international community and international community seem to sort of accepted. do you think it is incumbent upon the international community to actually forced upon upon to respect the promises of upon upon themselves, mood, 100 person and international community blazer and massive rule in a way to have one to sun is today we accept it or be don't accept it, but they are part of the drago when this crisis happened, and one on last year and except

a blank bonuses and statements. and then i took the piano and now i have not heard the toilet when i count it. and then i think after that, giving, giving them a year to actually bruised them, says that the new respect, human rights in general, but particularly woman's rights, this is time for international that we need to take action. this is done for the international community to use their leverage toward the thought of on account of just one final grissom is a river. if you're a woman or a garden, have gone a song to do. what is the message that goes out to learn? what should they be doing? if i dig down these and diffracted that the deal showing the word and the issuing and tyler bond, that as one woman has changed, that one woman is not the same woman of 96 is is something that they should continue because that's where the telephone should know, and that i'm not even when you say something and i'm really relieved there. thank

you so much for joining us today. ah. on sunday, but to sondra to celebrate 75 years of its independence followed by india on monday . but behind these celebrations, like countless stories of been and tragedy, arising from what is known in the subcontinent as the partition of india. the border determining this was finalized 75 years ago to day. these other lines, a british lawyer, sir sydel ratcliffe, drew across the map of british india to create india and pakistan. bog assigned itself divided into east and west pakistan at that time. in creating hindu majority, india and islamic pakistan. conditions was set for mos migration and religious pogroms. some 12000000 people found themselves on the wrong side of a line that divided nations along religious lines. hindus in newly created pakistan

fled to india, and muslims in the opposite direction. up to a 1000000 people were massacred in the ensuing violence. it's a story of shared violence among pakistanis and indians. as we had inter independence day celebrations of both countries, it's worth shouting from those that witness these new nations being born amidst the carnage as well as the promise of a better future. ah, i lose you, then i g, g, d. so i all does harrington memories of partition doctor d was it jerry d should need was know this thing that he's very what engine my all stranger loosening. good. some bad. good. jen

shouldn't do this. did you why he might have i thought they used to teach in a village in what is now the indian side he had come home on for the summer break. when all hell broke loose or got a much better mileage, broke out schools were closed indefinitely. how many yet to get to high school, but no, get it. got there a lot of those. i watch it everywhere from countless dead bodies and injured people arriving to my city, which was on the new border. automatic, remember going there as a child to see what was happening? if any one b, only allan kerr, he came to easily and said that, no, you go because they're in danger. last year, like when we came to delete, we saw, oh, send in slain jaden did. they was all john leslie, good. my father's business at gone. and re we didn't have any

money left. just really did you hurt as tell you about us excel, other than the bottles of pakistan, joe handling a bottom on that i'll if anyone speaks of that time, i can immediately conjure it in my mind. i haven't got how much it's really difficult to talk about it for those of us who remember it and it was on. i'm emotional right now because i haven't spoken about that. diamond 75 years out tomorrow. i lost my uncle along so many people do. do these partition taste? i should, when he said the dead dish waiter done each other. why it has started. i see on my i beg pockets on programs and i love that language because i belong to god please. i love those good. near me, the history of the world is fullest toys of law but was also wanting to some you

can fight as when he was, as you like, nothing but meaningful decisions are only made at the negotiating table. that hasn't actually be top leadership. whitney exists. ringback fight drilling, jenny, this is what i do. but sunday we should we come to get it differently in most wish to for the speakers to you back here on monday, but ah, she's got issues with all say will gray. he will be

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