Hindi filmmaker Anurag Kashyap shared Afghan
filmmaker Sahraa Karimi’s open letter in which she appealed for the world to
take note of the crisis in Afghanistan. “I don’t understand this silence,” the
Afghan filmmaker said in reference to the world’s response to Taliban’s
takeover of Afghanistan.
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Sahraa Karimi is the first female chairperson of
the Afghan Film Organisation. With the Taliban taking over her country, Karimi
has appealed to the world film community to highlight the oppression faced by her
nation. Karimi shared the post after Taliban forces entered the outskirts of
Kabul on Sunday before the actual takeover and President Ashraf Ghani’s exit.
Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, whose Hindi films have
found admirers all across the world, shared Sahraa Karimi’s post saying, “Pls
share it far and wide…”
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In her post where she shared the open letter, Sahraa
Karimi addresses “all film communities in the world”. She says, “I write to you with a broken heart
and a deep hope that you can join me in protecting my beautiful people,
especially filmmakers from the Taliban”.
“In the last few weeks, the Taliban have gained
control of so many provinces. They have massacred our people, they kidnapped
many children, they sold girls as child brides to their men, they murdered a
woman for her attire,” Karimi wrote in her open letter.
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She further alleged that the Taliban has “murdered
the head of culture and media for the government.” Writing about the conditions
in camps where thousands of Afghans are stationed, Sahraa Karimi wrote, “The
families are in camps in Kabul…and they are in unsanitary condition. There is
looting in the cams and babies dying because they don’t have milk.”
“We have grown used to this silence, yet we know it
is not fair,” the filmmaker said.
After the Taliban’s seizing of Afghanistan on Sunday,
Monday saw hundreds of Afghans trying to flee the country through the only
outlet — the Kabul airport. People jostled to climb into the few flights that
were available and five people are reported to have died due in the chaos.
