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Afghanistan: Self-immolation of women, life, nation...continues
Nov 24 2006, Pooja

The Taliban Movement was a Sunni Islamist fundamentalist movement that successfully ruled most of Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001. The Taliban government has been severely condemned for violating the human rights of women.

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