Taliban authorities mark the third anniversary of their return to power in Afghanistan with a military parade in Bagram. Taliban forces seized the capital, Kabul, on August 15, 2021, after the US-backed government collapsed and its leaders fled into exile. The anniversary is marked a day earlier on the Afghan calendar.
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00:00We are the Mujahideen of this life and this land.
00:03We are the ones who are responsible for Jihad.
00:24My name is Mohammad Adi.
00:26My name is Mohammad and I am almost 20 years old.
00:29We have been living in this village for a long time.
00:34We have been living in this village for a long time.
00:59And the first, most striking trend is the erasure of Afghan women from public life.
01:19To date, no woman in Afghanistan has a leadership position anywhere that has influence politically,
01:28either at national or provincial level. When women are engaged in the Taliban's
01:35structures, their roles are largely to monitor compliance of other women with their discriminatory decrees.
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