First, her dreams of becoming a doctor were dashed by the Taliban’s ban on education. Then her family set up a forced marriage to her cousin, a heroin addict. Latifa* felt her future had been snatched away.
“I had two options: to marry an addict and live a life of misery or take my own life,” said the 18-year-old in a phone interview from her home in central Ghor province. “I chose the latter.”
Without the total number, it could literally be 3 people for all I know. Not that I don’t feel for the women in this situation.
In another reply someone quoted a better article that said ~100 suicide attempts. That’s all I was asking for
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Do you think it’s going to be significantly less than in other places? What would be the reason for that?