Many Canadians remember the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban in 2021 amid the withdrawal of Western troops.
For many in that country, specifically women, it marked a return to days of repression that hadn’t been seen in nearly 20 years.
Ehsanullah Amiri, the 2024 recipient of Postmedia’s Michelle Lang Fellowship, joins Dave Breakenridge to discuss the conditions under which women now live in Afghanistan, what their lives were like prior to the Taliban takeover, and why the story resonates nearly four years later.
Background reading:‘It’s a crime to be a girl’: The forgotten women of Afghanistan
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