{"id":29813,"date":"2012-05-04T08:18:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T12:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29813"},"modified":"2012-05-04T08:25:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T12:25:51","slug":"afghan-girl-seeks-safety-from-family-among-us-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29813","title":{"rendered":"Afghan girl seeks safety from family among US troops"},"content":{"rendered":"

National Public Radio<\/a> tells the story of a teenage Afghan girl whose family summarily condemned her to death when she was found to have a cellphone and the family suspected her of talking to a boy on it. They beat her for a little while, then took a supper break and told her that was her last meal.<\/p>\n

The girl escaped and went to the only place she knew that she would find safety and refuge from the crackpots she called her family – at a nearby US military outpost;<\/p>\n

“I was terrified to think of running away from home, but suddenly a voice from inside told me to flee before my brothers killed me. Maybe the devil made me do it,” says Lina. “I took one of their cloaks and wrapped it around me to look like a man. Then I slipped out of the house and started walking to the foreigner’s base nearby.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is where the story in Afghanistan often ends: The woman is sent home, and later killed by her family to cleanse the dishonor.<\/p>\n

But Lina’s tale has a rare happy ending. U.S. officials helped fly her to a women’s shelter in a larger city, while Afghan officials in her province agreed to look the other way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, this trust that the young girl put in the “foreigners” over that which she had in her own family won’t make the New York Times or the LA Times, because they’re too busy looking for “scandals” which undermine the mission in Afghanistan rather than looking for reasons to celebrate our small victories like the life of this child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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