parents forced soothe their children to spare them hunger pangsothers who choose to do so sell them to wealthier families to give them a better future while cases of organ trafficking. It is the photo taken by a BBC investigation into the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and deteriorated further after the seizure of power Taliban about a year and a half ago. The broadcaster gave a voice to several people who shared their own story: “Our children keep crying and not sleeping. We don’t have food. So we go to the pharmacy, take the pills and give them to our kids to make them sleepy,” she said. Abdul Wahab to the British broadcaster. The man lives in Herat, the third largest city in the country, in a settlement where there are thousands of small houses full of displaced people destroyed by the war. Many choose to give psychotropic drugs to children: a Rue costs less than a loaf of bread. So in order not to starve, the little ones are drugged.
A twenty-year-old boy identified in the investigation as “dig‘ he said he had suffered surgery to remove his kidney: “There was no way out. I heard you could sell a kidney at a local hospital. I went there and told them I wanted to do it. A few weeks later I got a call asking me to come to the hospital – he explained – they did some tests, then they injected me with something that knocked me out. I was afraid, but I had no choice.” The investigation does not bring the true identity to light ammar, to protect and avoid consequences. The 20-year-old earns approx 3 thousand dollarsused to pay off debts. “If we eat one night, we don’t eat the next. After selling my kidney, I feel like half a person,” Ammar said. i feel hopeless“.
in the Afghanistan Selling organs was a widespread practice even before the arrival of the Taliban. But now it becomes the only solution for many. Men in Afghanistan have also led a difficult life for a long time. In the Herat area most people work in the fields. But since the foreign money left the country, work has declined radically. As a result, many find it difficult to find employment. And when they are successful, they earn little more than a dollar a day.
Often even the sale of organs is not enough to survive. This is how we read the voices of Afghan women forced to sell their daughters in the BBC inquiry. One of them explained that she was being blackmailed by the people she borrowed money from. And now is the only solution to sell your own daughter Two-year-old: “We are now forced to sell our two-year-old daughter. The people we borrowed harass us every day and tell them to give them our daughter if we can’t pay her back,” she said. another woman, Nizamuddininstead he sold his five-year-old daughter for 100,000 Afghans: The life of a five-year-old girl is worth just over 1,000 euros.