アフガンの元女性議員、銃撃され死亡

【カブールＡＦＰ＝時事】アフガニスタンの首都カブールで、元国会議員の女性が自宅で複数の侵入者に襲われ、銃で撃たれ死亡した。警察が１５日、発表した。（写真はアフガニスタンの首都カブールの自宅で殺害されたムルサル・ナビザダ氏）
　暗殺されたのはムルサル・ナビザダ氏（３２）。２０２１年８月にイスラム主義組織タリバンが復権するまで国会議員を務めていた。
　カブール警察の報道官によると、事件が起きたのは１４日から１５日にかけての深夜。ナビザダ氏とボディーガード１人が銃撃で死亡し、ナビザダ氏の男のきょうだいも負傷した。治安部隊が捜査に着手したという。
　アフガンでは米国の侵攻以降の２０年間に女性の社会進出が進み、裁判官やジャーナリスト、政治家が誕生。しかし、タリバンの復権後、そうした職業に就いていた多くの女性が国外に逃れた。
　元同僚議員によると、ナビザダ氏も国外脱出を勧められたが、「人々のために残る」と断った。元同僚議員は「身の危険をかえりみず、信じるもののために闘った真の先駆者だった」と、死を悼んだ。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/01/17-11:28）

Gunmen shot dead an Afghan former lawmaker and one of her bodyguards in the capital Kabul in a night-time attack at her home, police said on Sunday.
Mursal Nabizada had been a member of parliament in the US-backed government that was overthrown by the Taliban in August 2021.
Nabizada, along with one of her bodyguards, was shot dead at her house, Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said.
The security forces have started a serious investigation into the incident, he said, adding that a brother of the former lawmaker was also wounded in the attack, which took place during the night between Saturday and Sunday.
Nabizada was a fearless champion for Afghanistan, former lawmaker Mariam Solaimankhil said on Twitter.
A true trailblazer - strong, outspoken woman who stood for what she believed in, even in the face of danger, she wrote.
Despite being offered the chance to leave Afghanistan, she chose to stay and fight for her people, she added.
Nabizada, 32, hailed from the eastern province of Nangarhar, and had been elected as a member of parliament from Kabul in 2018.
I am sad and angry and want the world to know! tweeted Hannah Neumann, a member of the European parliament, in response to the killing.
She was killed in darkness, but the Taliban build their system of gender apartheid in full daylight.
Women had worked in prominent positions across Afghan society in the two decades since the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, with many becoming judges, journalists and politicians.
Many women in such professions have fled the country, however, since the Taliban returned to power.
Taliban authorities have rapidly squeezed women out of almost all areas of public life, banning them from secondary and higher education, public sector work and even from visiting public parks and baths.
They have also ordered women to cover their bodies in public, ideally in an all-encompassing burqa.