Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Pretty Afghan woman had her nose hacked off after fleeing arranged marriage | The Sun |Features

Pretty Afghan woman had her nose hacked off after fleeing arranged marriage | The Sun |Features


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A gaping fleshy hole was all that remained of her nose after it was hacked off on orders from the Taliban when Bibi fled an arranged marriage and abusive in-laws.

She also had her ears sliced off as part of the punishment.

Recalling the moment when her brutal attackers caught up with her, Bibi says: "When they cut off my nose and ears, I passed out. Then, in the middle of the night I felt like there was cold water in my nose.

"I opened my eyes and couldn't even see because of all the blood."

Bibi, an illiterate young woman from a village in the southern Afghanistan province of Uruzgan, has been fitted with the prosthetic nose and her beauty has been restored.

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