'The Decision of My Life': Part 3

The Daily

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🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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This episode contains mention of suicide. A year ago, Lynsea Garrison, a senior producer on The Daily, started telling the story of N, a teenager in Afghanistan. N’s family tried to force her to marry a member of the Taliban, but she resisted. When she tried to escape to the U.S., however, her case was rejected, so she had to remain in Kabul, fearful and in hiding. Here’s what happened next.

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0:00.0	Previously on The Daily.
0:02.0	Hello.
0:04.0	Hi. How are you?
0:08.0	A year ago, my colleague Lindsey Garrison started telling the story of N, a teenager in
0:16.6	Afghanistan whose family was trying to force her to marry a member of the Taliban.
0:21.6	They want to give me to a Taliban because they think if I got married with a Taliban,
0:28.5	the Taliban will not kill or you know, they will not be a danger for us.
0:33.5	But I can't.
0:34.5	She resisted.
0:35.5	And now, every day they beat me, at the first my father beat me and then my brother.
0:42.5	And when they abused her, she attempted to take her own life.
0:45.5	You'd rather die than...
0:47.5	Yeah.
0:48.5	That's it.
0:49.5	Eventually, she escaped.
0:52.5	But when she tried to leave the country and come to the US...
0:55.5	I just got amused as I can't go.
1:00.5	Her case was rejected.
1:02.5	Legally, I can't go.
1:04.5	So she remained in Kabul in hiding.
1:07.5	Fearing the Taliban would find her.
1:09.5	Her stupid was I that I, you know.
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