Afghan women students rally in Herat after classroom attack


Afghan women display placards and chant slogans during a protest they call ‘Stop Hazara genocide’ a day after a suicide bomb attack at Dasht-e-Barchi learning centre in Kabul. Today, 100 Afghan women students staged in a similar protest in the western city of Herat. – AFP pic, October 2, 2022.

MORE than 100 Afghan women students rallied in the western city of Herat today, protesting against a suicide bombing on a Kabul classroom that killed dozens as they prepared for exams.

On Friday, a bomber blew himself up in the women’s section of a gender-segregated study hall in Kabul’s Dasht-e-Barchi neighbourhood, an enclave of the historically oppressed Shiite Muslim Hazara community.


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