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by Anne Holmes<\/p>\n

Amine, pictured above, is 16 years old. She was forced to marry at the age of 14 but has many problems with her husband and his family. She doused herself with oil and set herself on fire to protest her unwanted marriage but her father says that she must return to her husband because there is no such thing as divorce in their family. She has burns over 33% of her body. She has vowed to kill herself if forced to go back.<\/p>\n

I met a 17 year old girl who set herself on fire out of desperation because she was forced to marry a man of 60 years. I also met a nine year old girl who self-immolated after fighting with her father. She has been in the hospital for 45 days and will be sent home in five days time. Her mother sits by her side everyday and her father comes to visit as well, but everyone told me that he beats his wife at the hospital for all to see. Another young woman, 16 years, set herself on fire because she loves a boy but her family refuses to let her marry him.<\/p>\n

Herat Regional Hospital recently opened a special ward for self-immolation victims, and receives an average of 6 cases per week. Most of them are between the ages of 13 and 22 and the majority do not survive. Many young Afghan girls are forced to marry men who are much older than them. Often they suffer physical, sexual and psychological abuses at the hands of their husbands and\/or his family. These young women are also often forced into prostitution by their husbands but rarely admit this publicly because it is too shameful in Afghan society. Setting themselves on fire is all too common form of protest or suicide, but there are virtually no social services in place to help these young women out of their situations and accord them their proper rights. Most of them are forced to go back to their unwanted husbands and it is unclear what their fate is thereafter.<\/p>\n

by Anne Holmes Amine, pictured above, is 16 years old. She was forced to marry at the age of 14 but has many problems with her husband and his family....<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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