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![Postwar Tajik Fatwa Helped Women Start New Lives
It was the onset of winter, still in the early stages of a bloody civil war, and Aziza Saidova couldn’t imagine things getting any worse. “It was like my world was falling apart,” Saidova recalls of those dark days in 1992, seven months into a Tajik civil war that would end up lasting five years. “My town was devastated by war, my husband had been shot dead, and at the age of 26 I was a widow with a 2-month-old baby.” [read more]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m69uqsJ3PF1qkgi6go1_500.jpg)
Postwar Tajik Fatwa Helped Women Start New Lives
It was the onset of winter, still in the early stages of a bloody civil war, and Aziza Saidova couldn’t imagine things getting any worse.
“It was like my world was falling apart,” Saidova recalls of those dark days in 1992, seven months into a Tajik civil war that would end up lasting five years. “My town was devastated by war, my husband had been shot dead, and at the age of 26 I was a widow with a 2-month-old baby.” [read more] -
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