A short documentary “Opium Brides,” reported by Najibullah Quraishi in the PBS Frontline, analyses and describes the ongoing problems caused by opium in Afghanistan. This video with its source of interviewing Afghan people is describing the reality of an unfortunate disaster in that part of the world. Questions about how their problem started in the first place, causes made by it, and some other sad, unspoken problems that people are suffering about opium.
People in Afghanistan because of their financial situation, start borrowing loans from drug traffickers. According to the interviewed people, the average money they get for a loan is twenty thousand dollars, and instead, “they start growing a crop of opium poppies to pay those people back.” …show more content…
The habit of smoking opium which “costs around 200 Afghanis a day ($4, £2.40), that is a very expensive habit in a country.” (Ferris-Rotman) Furthermore, people for buying it either “send their children to collect scrap and bottles to help pay for their habit, or resort to begging, extending a hand to cars from beneath their burqa on busy streets.” (Ferris-Rotman) Or, women “supports her habit by selling handmade sexual aid tools - stuffing compacted wool into condoms - to other inmates, several of whom have developed lesbian relationships.” (Ferris-Rotman) All those poor people after getting kidnaped, they face many dangerous things while they are waiting for their families and friends to help them to get released from them. Many Afghans believe that their situation in the society is very disappointing, “more disheartening than the utter poverty is the torture… not having any more honor… prefer death to this humiliation.” (DiNovella) Also, in the period of the time that they are hostages, they face sexual harassment from the Taliban. One of those many people faced the sexual harassment describes his situation as “Taliban tied my hands and then they put me in a container. They removed my clothes… someone was fingering me. Some of them were pulling my testicles.”
People in Afghanistan because of their financial situation, start borrowing loans from drug traffickers. According to the interviewed people, the average money they get for a loan is twenty thousand dollars, and instead, “they start growing a crop of opium poppies to pay those people back.” …show more content…
The habit of smoking opium which “costs around 200 Afghanis a day ($4, £2.40), that is a very expensive habit in a country.” (Ferris-Rotman) Furthermore, people for buying it either “send their children to collect scrap and bottles to help pay for their habit, or resort to begging, extending a hand to cars from beneath their burqa on busy streets.” (Ferris-Rotman) Or, women “supports her habit by selling handmade sexual aid tools - stuffing compacted wool into condoms - to other inmates, several of whom have developed lesbian relationships.” (Ferris-Rotman) All those poor people after getting kidnaped, they face many dangerous things while they are waiting for their families and friends to help them to get released from them. Many Afghans believe that their situation in the society is very disappointing, “more disheartening than the utter poverty is the torture… not having any more honor… prefer death to this humiliation.” (DiNovella) Also, in the period of the time that they are hostages, they face sexual harassment from the Taliban. One of those many people faced the sexual harassment describes his situation as “Taliban tied my hands and then they put me in a container. They removed my clothes… someone was fingering me. Some of them were pulling my testicles.”