"Don't forget us": Darya Parsia, Afghan artist, says the Taliban nightmare

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"Don't forget us": Darya Parsia, Afghan artist, says the Taliban nightmare

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Darya Parsia contacted us in private on Instagram.As we throw a bottle into the sea. His message?Alert to the fate of his country and the worrying situation of Afghan artists.We answered his call.A series of emails followed when she was lucky to have access to Internet -t in which she told us her story.That of a child of war, a sad teenager, a young woman who sees her country today dive back into chaos.

Darya (this is her artist name, she prefers to silence her real name for fear of reprisals) was born in Pakistan 22 years ago during an "icy day", she confides to us.His parents were "different".Afghan refugees from the Shiite minority.Darya's father had a little shop, his mother was a teacher.But they had to flee Afghanistan in 1996, a few days after the Taliban's emergence in the capital, Kabul.

How to describe this exiled childhood?"Dark", decides Darya.She, the curious and creative girl, remembers the rusty and dilapidated roof of her school, "bad" teachers, the blows of her brothers, things she dreamed of but that she was prohibited, hibiscus from the garden of theSchool that calmed him, injustice."I have never accepted the treatment of girls and women. I was constantly opposed to the fact that girls and women were required to perform all household chores for men, cook cleaning, washing, bring them aglass of water. And why was I forced by my brothers to cover my head with a scarf at the age of five? I didn't want to wear this scarf, "she recalls.

"I had a sad childhood where to listen to music, being happy and dancing was considered to be 'haram', illegal, taboo. We were indoctrinated to accept our destiny and lead ascetic life as women."

While she is 10 years old, her family decides to go back to Afghanistan.The Taliban has been dislodged from power since 2001, the country seems to be reborn after chaos.But on the spot, the young Shiite isolates herself for fear of being attacked by her comrades, the vast majority of Sunni.His escape?The children's books that she borrows greedily from the small library next to her house."I was putting myself in place of the characters and becoming their travel partner. I had a charming world in my head, a world where there was no war and cruelty."