
To burn is the only form of expression allowed to Afghanistan women.
Having been Married and suffered at young age, they fail to find an escape.
Gulbar, for example, was rushed into a local hospital in Northern Afghanistan with horrid burn on her nearly deformed body and face. Her internal body scans and blind eye narrate the story themselves: she had been brutally abused by her husband.
In another case, after an argument, Salehah’s husband poured gasoline over her tied up body and set it on fire.
Zarghona was also burned by her father-in-law for not washing her husband’s clothes thoroughly. She was fifteen.
However, these three are not the only victims. So far, about 800 cases have been “officially” recorded for the abuse cases.
The unfortunate social, mental, and physical suppression continue to bring greater depression and slavery for these women.
So, they burn themselves in fire.
If they get to survive with a slim chance, they cry muted again.