By PTI
LOS ANGELES:Â Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has joined Instagram and mentioned she is going to use the platform to shares voices combating for his or her fundamental human rights, together with these popping out of Afghanistan after the nation’s takeover by the Taliban.
In her first put up on the social media platform, Jolie shared a letter she mentioned she obtained from an nameless teenage woman in Afghanistan, who feared residing within the nation beneath the present circumstances.
“Right now, the folks of Afghanistan are shedding their means to speak on social media and to specific themselves freely.
“So I’ve come on Instagram to share their stories and the voices of those across the globe who are fighting for their basic human rights,” the 46-year-old Oscar-winning actor wrote.
The Taliban swept into Kabul on Sunday after President Ashraf Ghani fled the nation, bringing a surprising finish to a two-decade marketing campaign by which the US and its allies had tried to remodel Afghanistan.
It has sparked chaos at Kabul’s airport, from the place America and allied nations are attempting to soundly evacuate hundreds of their residents and allies.
Jolie recalled the time when she was on the border of Afghanistan two weeks earlier than the September 11, 2001 terror assaults in New York and mentioned that she met Afghan refugees who had fled the Taliban almost 20 years in the past.
“It is sickening to look at Afghans being displaced but once more out of the worry and uncertainty that has gripped their nation.
To spend a lot money and time, to have bloodshed and lives misplaced solely to come back to this, is a failure virtually not possible to grasp,” she wrote.
What can be sickening is how the Afghanistan refugees are being “treated like a burden”, Jolie mentioned in an obvious criticism of world leaders.
“Knowing that if that they had the instruments and respect, how a lot they’d do for themselves. And assembly so many ladies and women who not solely wished an schooling, however fought for it.
“Like others who are committed, I will not turn away. I will continue to look for ways to help. And I hope you’ll join me,” the actor concluded her put up.
Jolie posted your complete letter of the younger woman together with a photograph of seven Afghan girls standing with their backs to the digicam.
In the letter, the woman detailed her difficulties of going to highschool after the Taliban’s takeover.
“We all had rights, we (were) able to defend our rights freely, but when they came, we are all afraid of them, and we think all our dreams are gone,” the woman wrote.
Since her debut, Jolie’s first put up has obtained over 1.3 million likes on Instagram.
She has additionally amassed 4.2 million followers on the social media platform.
