Women Demand Their Rights After Deadly Bombing In Kabul

Several dozen Afghans, mostly women, protested on October 1, one day after a suicide bombing killed dozens of mostly female students preparing for university entrance exams in Kabul. Most of the victims were from the minority Hazara community, a mainly Shi’ite Muslim ethnic minority that has been targeted in brutal attacks in recent years. Protesters marched past a hospital where victims of the attack were being treated chanting: “Stop Hazara genocide” and “It’s not a crime to be a Shi’a.” One of the demonstrators who spoke to RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi said she was demanding freedom, as the ruling Taliban provides them "neither education nor work."