photo courtesy: Angelina Jolie [Pic by Gage Skidmore]
Angelina Jolie has joined Instagram and shared her first powerful post/message. The 46 years Old Actor and activist shared a letter on Friday from an Afghan girl who wrote that she is scared of the Taliban's ascendance to power after the withdrawal of US Troops from the country.
She said" Right now, the people of Afghanistan are losing their ability to communicate on social media and to express themselves freely. So I've come on Instagram to share their stories and the voices of those across the globe who are fighting their basic human rights''
In the letter the girl said:
Before the Taliban's took control of the country, They all went to school and work, they all had rights, they were able to defend there rights freely, but when they came [Taliban's] they were all afraid of them and they think all there dreams are gone, there rights violated. They cannot go out. Studying and working is far away. Some people are saying that the Taliban's have changed but she doesn't Think so cause of there bad past.
She continues to state an encounter where by the Taliban's came to there house and they were all scared. After the encounter she thought about what kind of time she should go to school in the morning in the situation cause of their existence and when to come home from course again. The air was dark but she could go home easily from course. And she thinks the course will be closed. Now they have no rights. The life of all of them is Dark.
''We all lost our freedom and we are imprisoned again'' The girl ended her letter
The link in Jolie's Instagram bio leads to a a news article on the U.N. refugee agency site, discussing the humanitarian crisis happening in the embattled country
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