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Shabnam Safa
@ShabnamSafa
An Afghan Hazara refugee on unceded Aboriginal land in 🇦🇺 | Chair @NraagAus | Work @Crsa_Aus | Member @ActionForAfg @HazaraAdvocacy | Views my own | She/Her
Mar 7, 2022 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
International Women’s Day #IWD is to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, & political achievements of women around the world.
But today, my heart aches for the women of my homeland who've had their achievements of the last two decades taken away from them overnight.
🧵1/7 20 years ago, one of the reasons the US invaded Afghanistan was to ‘liberate’ its women from the oppression & tyranny of the Taliban.

They were sold a dream of freedom & liberty to choose their own destiny & they worked excruciatingly hard to make that dream a reality. 2/7