「学校を再開せよ！」 アフガン女子生徒ら、女子教育の再開停止に抗議

【ＡＦＰ＝時事】アフガニスタンで実権を握るイスラム主義組織タリバンが女子の中等教育再開を撤回したことを受け、首都カブールで２６日、女子生徒ら約２０人が「学校を再開せよ」とシュプレヒコールを上げて抗議集会を行った。（写真はアフガニスタンの首都カブールにある教育省の前で、女子の中等教育再開を訴える人々）
　タリバン政権の教育省は今月２３日から女子の中等教育を再開すると発表。当日は全土の高校で大勢の女子生徒が教育の再開を喜び合う姿が見られた。だがわずか数時間後、同省は方針を撤回した。
　カブールの広場に集まった女子生徒や女性は「学校を再開せよ！ 正義！ 正義！」とシュプレヒコールを上げながら、「教育は私たちの基本的権利であり、政策ではない」と書かれた横断幕を掲げて短い距離を行進したが、タリバンの戦闘員が到着すると散り散りになった。
　タリバン政権は、女子教育を再び停止した明確な理由を示していない。
　アフガンの女子生徒は、７か月以上教育を受けられずにいる。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2022/03/28-09:46）

About two dozen girls and women chanting open the schools protested in the Afghan capital Saturday against the Taliban's decision to shut their secondary schools just hours after re-opening them this week.
Thousands of jubilant girls across Afghanistan had flocked to learning institutions on Wednesday -- the date the education ministry had set for classes to resume.
But just hours into the first day, the ministry announced a shock policy reversal that left youngsters saying they felt betrayed and foreign governments expressing outrage.
Open the schools! Justice, justice! chanted protesters Saturday, some carrying school books as they gathered at a city square in Kabul.
They held banners that said: Education is our fundamental right, not a political plan as they marched for a short distance and later dispersed as Taliban fighters arrived at the scene.
The protest was the first held by women in weeks after the Taliban rounded up the ringleaders of initial demonstrations held after they returned to power in August.
The Islamists have not given a clear reason for their decision, which came after a meeting late Tuesday of senior officials in the southern city of Kandahar, the Taliban's de facto power centre and spiritual heartland.
It followed months of work by some foreign countries on a plan to support the payment of teachers' wages.
Afghan secondary school girls have now been out of education for more than seven months.
Even the Prophet (Mohammed) said everyone has the right to education, but the Taliban have snatched this right from us, said youngster Nawesa at the demonstration, which was organised by two women's rights groups.
The Taliban can not oppress the women of Afghanistan, said another protester, Laila Basim.
Since returning to power on August 15 the Taliban have rolled back two decades of gains made by the country's women, who have been squeezed out of many government jobs, barred from travelling alone, and ordered to dress according to a strict interpretation of the Koran.
The Taliban had promised a softer version of the harsh Islamist rule that characterised their first stint in power from 1996 to 2001.
But many restrictions have still been imposed -- if not at the national level then implemented locally at the whim of regional officials.
Some Afghan women initially pushed back against the Taliban's curbs, holding small protests where they demanded the right to education and work.
But the Taliban soon rounded up the ringleaders, holding them incommunicado while denying that they had been detained.
Since their release, most have gone silent.