No Justice 5 Years After Afghanistan Taliban Bombing

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Afghan security officials inspect the site of a Taliban suicide bombing, Kabul, Afghanistan. January 27, 2018. © 2018 Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency/via Getty Images Five years ago, I interviewed a young Afghan woman who miraculously survived the devastating Taliban suicide bombing in Kabul on January 27, 2018. It was a horrendous attack: the Taliban rigged an ambulance with explosives and detonated it in downtown Kabul, killing more than 100 people. She escaped serious injury only because she had stepped into a shop moments before. “I thought I had gone blind,” she…

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