Self Immolation as an Alternative to a Taliban Husband

via BBC News Radio tonight, more than 100 Afghan women have SET THEMSELVES ON FIRE this year. In many cases, it is a fake kitchen fire or other domestic display of suicide by self-immolation as a way out of a particularly abusive relationship.

Holy crap, that is absolutely awful.

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