So my sister and I went to town. There was a huge field in the center of the town, most the time boys was play football races and concerts. But today this field was looking like somewhere that I never seen it before there was so many Taliban cars and a huge hole in the centre of the field with a mountain of stones. In the other side of the field they build a wall. Suddenly every one was running some of them was going inside the field some people going running out of the field. My sister and me we got scared to death. Every where was storm of dust and smoke, I ask one of the women what is going on in here. She saidʼ Taliban is stoning a woman and under wall a man because they had affair with each other. Than a Talib came with his gun and shout at us to go inside the field. My sister I start crying. We went to the field than we run away from other side of the field. We run all the way home. Because we could not see such a thing we were scared to death. We came back home without any button or the things mom told us to bring her.
The next day we heard that they stoned the woman and under wall the man. They both died. We were so young but still we had to wear big scarf and long dress to cover from head to toes. We were hardly coming out of the house because Taliban was choosing girls for them selves. At night they were coming the girlʼs house asking her parents that they want their daughter. The parent didnʼt have that power to say no. because if they would say no to Taliban, they would kill all the family and marry with their daughters. The boys werenʼt allowed to have hair style they had to shave and were a small white hat. School was closed for the girls. Taliban was saying education is not for women they have stay at home, give birth and cook for their husband. The school was open only for boys but all the teachers were Taliban and they were teaching only Quran and pray all the time. Boys had to wear long dresses with turban.
Every day in the town a car full of Taliban with guns was driving and forcing people to go to mosque. Even though they were just coming out of the mosque, the Taliban would beat them and tell people to go to mosque because was saying we didnʼt see u praying. If the people were saying we just pray Taliban would take them and put them in the jail.
Every Mondays and Thursdays we had shopping day people was coming from villages to sell fruits or eggs and buys other thing to take back with them. But since Taliban came to Sheberghan, every Mondays and Thursdays they were hanging men and stoning women or beating them with no reasoning the centre of the town. They was forcing people to watch.
By Tamana
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