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( extracted from News Straits Times, 5 Feb 2012)

World Press Photo Of The Year 2010 by Jodi Bieber, South Africa, Institute For Artist Management/Goodman Gallery for Time magazine

Bibi Aisha, 18, who was disfigured as retribution for fleeing her husband’s house in Oruzgan province, in the centre of Afghanistan. At the age of 12, Aisha and her younger sister were given to the family of a Taliban fighter under a Pashtun tribal custom for settling disputes. When she reached puberty, she married him, but she later returned to her parents’ home, complaining of violent treatment by her in-laws. Men came by one night and demanded that she be handed over to be punished for running away. Aisha was taken to a mountain clearing, where she was held down and first had her ears sliced off, then her nose. In local culture, a man who has been shamed by his wife is said to have lost his nose, and such treatment is considered punishment in kind. Aisha was abandoned, but later rescued and taken to a shelter in Kabul run by the aid organisation Women For Afghan Women, where she was treated and given psychological help. She was later taken to America, where she received counselling and reconstructive surgery


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