Afghan director issues warning of massacres, child brides, banned arts amid Taliban takeover
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Sahraa Karimi, who serves as the general director of the country’s national film company, Afghan Film, took to Twitter on Friday in a plea to the international film community to speak up about protecting the people in the country.
She took to Twitter on Friday in a plea to the international film community to speak up about protecting the people in the country. "I write to you with a broken heart and a deep hope that you can join me in protecting my beautiful people, especially filmmakers from the Taliban," Karimi wrote in the lengthy memorandum. "In the last few weeks, they have massacred our people, they kidnapped many children, they sold girls as child brides to their men… It’s a humanitarian crisis, and yet the world is silent… They will ban all art. I and other filmmakers could be next on their hit list."More Related News
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