Afghanistan: Kabul under the Taliban | DW Documentary

Since the Taliban have seized power in Afghanistan, many people in Kabul live in fear losing their free way of life. Maryam is a journalist but can no longer report on what she would like to. Gholam is a musician but can no longer perform in public.

On top of everything else come overwhelming economic problems. Gholam, for example, has had to sell off his furnishings and even his refrigerator to provide for his family any way he could. At the same time, the faint hope that the Taliban might at least bring greater peace and security to a city ravaged by attacks has not been realized. Now, it’s as if the militias of the Islamic State terrorist group had a license to kill. The city’s young and well educated elite are in an especially desperate situation. A report by Nick Connolly.

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[orlandotocano]

The Taliban didnt take Kabul, it was given to them

[viniciusgomes]

"Maryam will not be silent"
She will if they find her😐

[Nate-dvdp]

This is what happens when you take religion too seriously 🙄

[juliagardner]

So tragic that even music is banned by the Taliban.Music so essential for the human spirit and gives people joy and hope.Good luck for brave lovely Maryam and Afghan women.

[padwah]

these women have more pride and strength than all of the afghan army put together. be strong

[RalphdontGAF]

Restrictions on jokes, restrictions music. Nice going Taliban.

[genghizkhan]

Only Afghans can change there prospect in life !

[jonathancorcoran]

I don't know how any level-headed American can watch this documentary and then decide to vote for leaders who want to suppress your rights and free speech.

[rivertwygzbed]

It's so sad that a mob of barbaric thugs will drag the entire population if Afghanistan back to the stone age.

[parisafatehi]

❤️❤️Maryam be strong and never give up because one day Taliban will return back to place they came, but this land and this people need you .
Our land need more women like you to build it again ❤️💗💐

[mydhy]

Sebagai orang Indonesia yang terbiasa dengan segala kebebasan, gak bisa bayangin gimana kehidupan di Afghanistan

[jmbandoquillo]

This reminds me of the book 'A Thousand Splendid Suns'

[verswmarz]

These activits will not be censored by facebook and vietnamese gov neither.
Pham Chi Dung, Nguyen Tuong Thuy, Le Huu Minh Tuan, Truong(journalists sntenced 15 years in prison), Duy Nhat(blogger sentenced to 10 years in prison), Nguyen Van Hoa(videographer sentenced to 7. Years in prison for speaking against the government), Pham Chi Thanh(editor at Vietnam's state-run radio broadcaster Voice of Vietnam, sentenced to 5 years in prison for making, storing, disseminating and propagandizing information, materials and products that aim to oppose the state of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam), Nguyen Thanh Nha, Nguyen Phuoc Trung Bao, and Doan Kien Giang(independent journalists sentenced to 15 years prision because they are accused by authorities of slandering government leaders in their investigative reports), Le Dung Vova(influencer sentenced to 20 years in prison for making, storing, spreading information, materials and items for the purpose of opposing the state), Phung Thi Nga(sentenced to 15 years for speaking up against the corruption of the vietnamese vommunist gov).

[dontbanmebrodontbanme]

Imagine all of your hopes and dreams, hobbies and things that make you happy. Having a garden. Singing. Learning a new language. Playing a musical instrument. And a group of people tell you, "NO, YOU CAN'T DO ANY OF THAT". The Taliban:

* can't protect their own people
* can't provide any jobs
* don't want their people, especially their women, doing *anything* other than praying

Well then, what's the point of being alive?

[DeputyCartman]

This is simultaneously uplifting and depressing. Uplifting in that these people are resisting the Taliban and aren't just rolling over for them. Depressing that these religious zealots just won't go back to the hole in the ground that spawned them.

Gee, funding religious zealots and giving them weapons to fight against the Soviet invasion. What could *possibly* go wrong!?

[ladislavfafrak]

At first glance, I see beautiful people, simple but beautiful. Then I learn that a father or brother is capable of murdering his daughter. And I will never understand that, because my daughter is an angel to me and I am here to protect her. You are monsters, murdering each other, and I do not understand how God could have allowed you to breathe the same air in this world as we do.

[vishalgupta]

9:27 the little girl with bangles ❤️ this shows afghanistan has cultural link with india but their religion is far away different from us

[TheNanachen]

she is so brave! i can't imagine living a life under such threats

[filsdejeannoir]

4:37 Why are you dubbing him? He's speaking English! 😳 And perfect English at that!

[dm-qkxj]

the taliban should be called as they are: the far right...but wait, what would the far right european parties be then?