YOUNG AFGHAN WOMEN BURN THEMSELVES RATHER THAN REMAIN IN ABUSIVE MARRIAGE

WARNING: This video may be hard to take for some people.

In this video you see young Afghan women who were married when they were only seven and ten years old describe how their husbands were drug addicts and refused to stop taking drugs and the young women felt the only way to get out of the situation was to set themselves on fire.

The video shows some of the young women in a hospital in Afghanistan and they describe what drove them to such extremes.

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