Don’t Look Away
The war on children and education in Afghanistan should be our war too
Read the op-ed by CW4WAfghan executive director Lauryn Oates recently published in OpenCanada:
“Today, the men, women and children of Afghanistan suffer; we do not. We, civilians in the safer countries of the world, do not have the shared experience of war with Afghans; we do not see ourselves as living the same story.
But while the war in Afghanistan is in part a war on a persecuted minority, it is also a war of ideas. The war on children, the war on education, the war on modernity should be our war, too. And for that reason, we should be memorializing the murdered girls of the Sayed Al-Shuhada School, telling their stories in our art, and naming places after them. But, much more importantly, we should be telling our leaders that this particular atrocity changes things; this atrocity has caused us to pay attention, to see in the crowd of terrible, deadly events enveloping Afghanistan, one tragedy that compels us to say: enough.”