“My uncle’s wife told me I should kill this person. I said I couldn’t kill her. She told me, ‘If you can’t kill her, then help me do it.’ She forced me and I helped her,” Najibullah recalled.
“She took me inside her home and hid me. When [Mahgul’s] husband left to go to the bakery, she told me to come out. She held her [Mahgul’s] legs while I beheaded her,” he continued. “I asked her [Parigul] why she wanted to behead Mahgul. She said, ‘I hate her because she doesn’t listen to me.’”
Just one incident in an appalling and unceasing pattern of violence against women.