Taliban militants (file photo)

8am: The Taliban dragged my brother’s tortured body into our home and dumped it before my father, mother, and all of us. They had tortured and murdered him with ruthless, sinister cruelty. We buried his bloodied, mutilated corpse, and from that agonizing moment, none of us truly lived. My father couldn’t bear it and passed away. We heard nothing of my missing brother’s fate, and my mother descended into mental anguish. This is the account of Rana, a survivor of the Taliban’s vengeance, which claimed three members of her family and forced the rest into exile. Click here to read more (external link).