Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Tortured by her Afghan husband, and she is not scared to look in the mirror
A young woman who was brutally tortured in Afghanistan by her husband after she tried to escape their abusive forced marriage is on the road to recovery as doctors continue to rebuild her face.
Aesha Mohammadzai, who believes she is 21 or 22, moved to the US two years ago after fleeing the war-torn country and is now six months into her surgery at a hospital in Bethesda, Maryland.
Brave Aesha - who has never attended school or celebrated her birthday - insisted yesterday that she is no longer scared to look at herself in the mirror, as her treatment reaches the halfway stage.
'I don't care,’ she told CNN. ‘Everybody has some kind of problem. At the beginning, I was very scared. I was scared to look at my face in the mirror.
‘I was scared to think what will happen in the future to me. But now I'm not scared anymore. Now I know the meaning of life, how to live. There, I couldn't understand how to live.'
Aesha’s story was first told in August 2010 by Time magazine, who published a harrowing cover photo of her - horrifying people around the world and symbolising the oppression of Afghan women.
When she was 12, her father promised her in marriage to a Taliban fighter to pay a debt. She was handed over to his family who abused her and forced her to sleep in the stable with the animals.
But when Aesha attempted to flee, she was caught and her nose and ears were hacked off by her husband as punishment. Left for dead in the mountains, she crawled to her grandfather's house.
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