El regreso talibán en Afganistán: cinco años de una de las mayores derrotas de la comunidad internacional
El grupo integrista consolida en un lustro, casi sin oposición, un régimen de represión contra las libertades, en especial las de las mujeres, y sumerge al país en la miseria. Mientras y pese a los abusos, Occidente da pasos para su normalización
On August 14, 2016, Fawzia Koofi narrowly escaped an assassination attempt near Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. She was part of a peace negotiation team with the Taliban. A year and a day later, on August 15, 2021, the extremist group seized control of the country again while the United States withdrew its troops and foreign nationals fled.
Koofi, a 50-year-old former Afghan Parliament speaker, remembers it as a "nightmare." "After 20 years, the Taliban replaced the Taliban," she says in a telephone conversation from her exile in London. A decade later, an anniversary of one of the greatest setbacks for the international community, the isolated and repressive Taliban regime has returned Afghanistan to an era of darkness, supported by arms, on the brink of war with neighboring Pakistan, and with a strained economy and society where women and girls are persecuted. And all this with the consent and silence of the opposition.
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