Scars of domestic violence; Herat victims seek justice

This year on the occasion of the international women solidarity day, a number of women’s rights visited victims of domestic violence at the Herat Regional Hospital. Zahra and Eqlima, the two victims of domestic violence, were laying in critical condition.

Zahra Ahmadi, 30, is a victim of violence, who has been hospitalized for almost the last three months in Herat Regional Hospital. Her doctor says that almost 50 percent of her body is burned. It is difficult for her to talk as the painful scars of her half-burned body are bandaged. “I can never forget that scary night when my children and I were set on fire,” she says. Zahra recounts that her drug-addicted husband set her and her children ablaze but as the quantity of petrol oil was less her children managed to escape with little damage on their bodies.