De un día para otro, la vida de unos 19 millones de mujeres y niñas afganas se ha roto. A Aisha, periodista, le dijeron el lunes que no fuese a trabajar y le avisaron que, de volver, sería en todo caso con burka. Saphiry destruyó el jueves el informe en el que estaba trabajando para una ONG extranjera. Los talibanes apalizaron a unos amigos por tener libros en inglés en su casa. Ambos nombres son falsos y ambas temen por su vida e intentaban este sábado salir desesperadamente del país.

In Kabul, the dystopian stories of hidden women in their homes, forced to cover themselves, with the prohibited entrance in their work or study centers are repeated throughout the city, where most women live with higher studies and liberal professions ofa mostly rural country.From one day to another, women have disappeared from the streets of the capital.The female faces of posters and shop windows have been crudely erased with paint.Owners of their lives until a few days ago, it is now difficult to contact them, do not take the phone for fear or because their families have been removed for fear of reprisals.

Being a woman in Afghanistan has never been easy.Even in the most recent years, female illiteracy rates, gender violence and legal and cultural obstacles for equal opportunities are among the worst in the world.However, the advances since 2001, the end of the Taliban five -year period, have been colossal.Advances that now be in danger.Despite the promises of the Taliban, women fear that the nightmare will return.The mandatory burka, the Mahram, a male guardian to be able to leave home, the prohibition of studying, working, driving alone, having their own money, going to a male doctor, maintaining relationships out of marriage, all under penalty of being lapsed, mutilated, whipped or dams.It would be the end of dance, music, TV, books, sport, laughter, independence and any kind of freedom for women.These are just three stories of 19 million.

Aisha is a journalist.It is not the first time that the ice cream of a threat feels.Long before her entrance in Kabul, the Taliban had already harassed her on social networks: "We are going for you, we are going to kill you and we will kill your whole family".

It is now official, but fear is not new to her."For a long time I take care with a tremendous stress, my family has asked me many times to please leave this work, because I put them at risk, but it cost me a lot to get here, I love it and I can't do anything else".His family also asked him to leave the country.She refused: “I love my country, I want to fight for my people.What opportunity will the women of the provinces have if they see that all of us who can afford it, here in Kabul, we leave?We would leave them without any hope ".

That was a Friday.

Last Monday, the day after the Taliban entered Kabul, they called her work to tell her to stay at home.There it is still locked, it has only left to go to the airport."I didn't want to go from the country, but my mother's threats and cries have convinced me," he said yesterday at a clandestine meeting in the living room of his house.He spent 18 hours at the airfield, endured several shootings, but he got nothing.He keeps trying.The rumor is that if they let the women journalists return to work and only to interview other women.

Aisha has never used it.She was a little girl when the Taliban ruled, but does not forget the horrors that her mother told."No one can accept these rules again, that women do not work, to be punished for leaving home ..." he says."Americans, Europeans cannot abandon us, we cannot lose everything we have advanced in these last two decades".Meanwhile, out of home you hear a shooting.

Hamiya riding a bike.Even protected by the platoon, even without taliban, it is not easy to be a cyclist for a woman in Afghanistan.On the street they have insulted it many times.For wearing tight clothes, for practicing a western sport, "of infidels", such as tennis, football, basketball."We permanently receive threats on social networks, by WhatsApp, they even call our homes ... If the Taliban get to control Afghanistan no one can practice any sport, especially women, for them the sport is not in our culture.My dreams will be frustrated forever, ”says the young woman with anguish.

In addition to athlete, Hamiya is Hazara, the community most hated by the Taliban.9% of the Afghan population is Hazara, an ethnic minority of Mongola Ascension and Chií confession (compared to a majority of Sunni) that has been historically punished."The Taliban are not Muslims," says Hamiya, "they don't even know how to read the Koran, Islam does not allow to kill and punish their own people.For us hazaras, Islam is a tolerant religion.We would never accept killing children and women like Taliban do it openly.That is not Islam ".

Now he doesn't want to talk on the phone in front of his family.They are afraid that militiamen locate the house.They are all Hazara and live with an athlete.They have hidden bicycles and maillots, in case in the door -to -door searches the Taliban discover it.

Saphiry lives in Kabul and has a long experience as a women's rights activist.He has worked for several international organizations and claimed to face discovered the need to improve the situation in Afghanistan, which was very far from being good before the Taliban arrived.Recently offered a televised interview in which I claimed: “We are facing very patriarchal societies in which women are the focus.In Afghanistan to the ministers are insulted, the laws that defend our rights do not apply, but we have still improved considerably ”.But now everything has changed.

Saphiry no longer gives its real name.Until few weeks ago he lived quietly with his mother and brothers.Since the Taliban entered Kabul they do not open the door of their home to anyone, they try not to make noise so as not to attract attention and no longer enters any salary at their home.

The conversation is broken, the telephone connection is very unstable, and the interview ends up by WhatsApp;Saphiry doesn't want to use email, it's not safe."We have been left without work and life is more expensive every day.We are many family and we don't even have for my mother's medicines, who is 80 years old and is sick, ”he laments."We live anguished that the door sounds".Saphiry is concerned about the recent Taliban announcement that single women over 18 can be beaten and imprisoned: "I am 40 years old," repeats.

His mind is now at the airport: "We would like to escape from this hell".Saphlyly spinning about the same idea, how this has been reached: “It may be difficult to understand for Westerners, but we were not waiting for this end.Until now our life was good.I was working on a report for an international organization, one of my nephews also had a job and we were happy, but this situation, even if they do not believe it, has taken us by surprise.We never imagined that we were going back to terror.We thought that the situation was irreversible, that we would not be under a Taliban regime, that the world would not allow it ”.

Minutes after the chopped interview, Saphiry sends a message again.The Talibanes have just entered the house of some friends, in the middle of the night, looking for books in English and critical documents with Islam.After the record, they teach "the loot" to the neighbors and be close to the owners in front of all to serve as an example, "to clean their homes".

"The first thing I have done has been to destroy the report in which I was preparing," writes Saphly."I just want to get out of here," repeats.Yesterday morning, he was encouraged to buy the bread.Some men were waiting for her at the corner of her house.The scare decided to leave the airport.

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