Safia Hama Dschan

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Safia Hama Dschan (* 1941 ; † September 25, 2006 in Kandahar ) was an Afghan teacher belonging to the Tajik people and a women's rights activist .

Life

Former teacher Safia Hama Dschan has been Kandahar Provincial Women's Representative since the Ministry of Women's Affairs was founded in 2002. Under the rule of the Taliban girls and women were strictly prohibited from going to school. With a series of measures, Hama Dschan ensured that Afghan girls and women were re-educated, which met with great commitment and enthusiasm among the students. Hama Dschan had opened six schools for girls and women in Kandahar alone, where 1,000 schoolgirls were already learning to bake and sell their goods on the market. She also taught them to use personal computers .

On the way to work, she was killed by two assassins with four shots in the head. In total, eyewitnesses report about three minutes of uninterrupted fire on the politician's car. Your driver survived the assassination injured. The two turbaned offenders who had been waiting for their victim to eyewitness accounts could escape with a motorcycle.

The assassination of Hama Jan came at a time of increasing violent conflict in Afghanistan. The frequency of attacks on schools had also increased at the time. In 2005 militants burned 146 schools and in 2006 158 schools were attacked.

Web links

 Wikinews: Afghan politician shot dead in Kandahar  - news

supporting documents

  1. ^ Noor Khan: Afghan Women's Activist Assassinated by Gunmen , AP / Washington Post , September 26, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Hama Dschan, Safia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Afghan women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 2006
Place of death Kandahar