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Self-immolation – fleeing violence

medica mondiale presents the first systematic study of suicides among Afghan women

Statistics on self-immolations in Afghanistan from 2002 to 2005

compiled from various sources (c.f. last column)

Province

Year

Number of burns victims

Number of fatal burns cases

Age

Source

Herat

2002

26

9

14-20

Hospital records

100

 

 

Los Angeles Times

Herat

2003

300

250

15-30

AIHRC - The Washington Post

160

-

 

Hospital staff – Radio Free Europe

52

32

12-50

AIHRC - China View

304

 

 

 

Herat

2004

180

100

 

The Washington Post

235

33

 

AIHRC – BBC News-South Asia

184

60

 

Hospital staff – Radio Free Europe

234

84

 

AIHRC

123

110

 

Reported to medica mondiale by two policemen (June 2004)

14

 

 

 

110

70

 

 

40

 

 

 

80

 

 

 

Herat

2005

700

 

 

Dr. Masuda Jalal – MOWA in OUTLOOK, August 2004

15

 

 

Legal Directorate, MoWA- Herat

75

 

 

UN ECOSOC report 2005

101

 

 

AIHRC – People’s Daily,

6

5

 

“Doctorane Omid” (medica mondiale)

Kabul

2004

20

 

 

“Doctorane Omid” (medica mondiale), Patient documentation, hospital reports, IWPR

30

 

 

28

 

 

Ghazni

2005

 

1

 

Department of Women’s Affairs

Farah

2004

 

80

 

Father of one of the victims, The Guardian

Jalabad

2003

 

3

 

Hospital staff, Amnesty International ; AIHRC

 

 

 

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