It turns out child brides in Afghanistan are apparently being flogged on a regular basis.

The nightmare of the hapless child brides in Afghanistan has been demonstrated by two innocent girls of 13 and 14 years, Khadija Rasoul and Basgol Sakhi. In most of the nations of the planet, child matrimonies would be deemed an unpardonable felony. However, in certain zones of Afghanistan, child marriages are a norm sanctioned by the regional traditions. The Afghan government, unfortunately, has not displayed adequate strength and conviction to end this menace. In some cases, it has simply been disinclined to confront the perpetrators of child marriages such as the powerful regional warlords, who have declared that they are the enforcers of morality. Many of these warlords are figures, who have asserted their backing for the current Afghani political establishment.

Khadija and Basgol, from the rural community of Gardan-i-Top in the Dulina area of Ghor Province in central Afghanistan, were the defenseless victims of the unjust custom of child marriages. In keeping with the UNICEF investigation, from 2003 to 2008, the brides in a sizeable 43% of Afghan matrimonies were under the age of 18. The Afghani constitution bans the matrimony of girls under the age of 16. However, tribal mores often forgive matrimony of girls once puberty is reached.

A marriage exchange resulted in Khadija and Basgol being supplied to elderly males in another family. Khadija and Basgol then remonstrated that their elderly husbands were quite belligerent. They hammered the girls when the girls endeavored to offer resistance when the men wanted to have sex. The appalling mistreatment experienced by the two girls compelled them to flee disguised as boys. They arrived at Herat, where they were questioned at a checkpoint after their bus was stopped.

Herat has numerous shelters for the girls, who are homeless, victims of maltreatment and who have escaped from their homes. However, the police personnel instead got in touch with Fazil Ahad Khan, previously a notorious warlord. Fazil has been depicted by the Afghani Independent Human Rights Commission functionaries as a self-styled executor of morals in the district in Ghor Province. The two victimized girls were sent back to him.

A kangaroo inquiry was organized by Fazil and zonal religious chiefs. In keeping with the commission’s account of the gruesome episode, the two girls were given the harsh punishment of 40 lashes each and were also flogged.

Well-wishers of the two battered girls somehow obtained two footages of the barbaric floggings and handed it to the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission.