Thomas the Rhymer, good posting. You said, Authorities came to take fathers, mothers and children... at gunpoint, to be murdered. The whole social interaction of that time was one of fear piled on fear piled on still more fear. Hunters and hunted. No controls to turn off. Systematic murder.

While your posting is in the past tense, because of the history you referred to, I would remind everyone that that is exactly what is happening in Afghanistan right now and still the world isn't doing much to stop it.

I just received an update from RAWA, Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan, which tells of increased suicides of women because of their inability to cope with the horrid atrocities they suffer.

Thank you,

kat