The young woman’s corpse was found in a bag in the Helmand river. But the murder inquiry was hampered by a simple fact – no one recognised her face. She was just one of Afghanistan’s invisible females, imprisoned in their homes and hidden behind the burqa. Her birth was never recorded, she never owned an identity card and her death was equally anonymous. The toll of civilian casualties in the war in Afghanistan is well known. Yet 10 times the number of women killed by war set fire to themselves every year – 2400, according to the United Nations. It is a reflection of…
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