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Amid concerns over pressure on women in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, some women have taken part in protests demanding courage to guarantee their rights. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff warned that Afghanistan could be divided in chaos, which could increase the power of terrorist groups.
This is Reporter Jung Joon-hyung.
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Dozens of women take to the streets and chant slogans in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.
These women demanded that the right to education and employment be guaranteed and that women should be included in the new government's cabinet.
Then, armed Taliban soldiers ran and threatened the women and tried to disperse the protesters.
[Soraya / Former Afghan government employee: The Taliban fired tasers and sprayed tear gas at women. They also hit women in the head with a magazine and they bled.] At
the Venice Film Festival in Italy, female filmmakers who fled Afghanistan attended a press conference.
They have asked the international community to protect Afghan women and children, filmmakers and artists from the Taliban.
[Sarakarimi/Afghan Film Director: Now the Taliban are trying to look appeased, but they are just as brutal as before. It's also gotten a lot smarter.] As
the chaos in Afghanistan grows, there is also the prospect of a civil war splitting up.
Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned that "a widespread civil war in Afghanistan is very likely, which could lead to reorganization or expansion of terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda."
He added that in the next one to three years, we could see a recurrence of terrorism in Afghanistan.
(Video editing: Lee Seung-yeol)