The Killing of Farkhunda

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Farkhunda, a 28-year-old Afghan woman and religious scholar, was beaten to death in the streets of Kabul in March this year. She had reportedly been arguing with a Mullah about the practice of selling charms in front of a mosque. He accused her of burning the Koran.

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0:00.0	Thank you for downloading from the BBC.
0:04.0	For details of our complete range of podcasts and our terms of use, go to BBCWorldServis.com slash podcasts.
0:24.0	This year on the 19th of March, a 27 year old woman was brutally murdered in Afghanistan. Beaten to death in broad daylight in the middle of Kabul by a mob while hundreds of people looked on,
0:36.0	filming her murder on their mobile phones.
0:41.6	Farhundam Alex Zada was stamped on, thrown off a roof, run over by a car, and finally set on fire.
0:50.0	I am Zarhuna Kargar and the killing of Farjonda is the harrowing
0:58.4	subject of today's documentary here on the BBC World Service. I am an Afghan woman myself and an activist in women's issues
1:08.3	so it's a story that broke my heart.
1:12.6	For the very first time we have spoken to the family of one of the men in prison for her
1:17.3	murder and to Farjonda's own family.
1:21.8	But be warned, this is a highly disturbing story. I went to see her. I saw her.
1:34.0	I was here.
1:36.0	I was here to her I was here.
1:38.0	I went to see her.
1:42.0	I saw her face all burned it had bled her hair was all pulled out
1:49.6	she was just ashes and charcoal.
1:53.0	How could they do this to a human being, to a living thing?
1:58.0	They should have stopped to think.
2:01.0	That is Farjonda's mother, BBjera, talking to the BBC.
2:05.0	She was my fourth child. It was in Kabul that she was born.
2:10.0	On a Friday, she was born on a Friday, our day of worship. I really like the name
2:18.0	Farjonda because it means prosperous and eternal. I used to sit next to her and gently touch her face. Her face was
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