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"Whatever your views on the war in Afghanistan, we probably agree on one thing: it should not have ended this way"
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Jolie added: "As an American I am ashamed by the manner of our leaving. It diminishes us." The 46-year-old actress is also concerned about the women in Afghanistan as the Taliban are notorious for mistreating females. Angelina explained: "We have lost leverage to influence what now happens in Afghanistan."
"We lack a strategy to monitor and support women and civil society in Afghanistan, who the Taliban have a history of targeting - banning girls from school, confining women to the home, and inflicting brutal physical punishments, including public lashing, on any woman perceived to have stepped out of line." Jolie added that the withdrawal from Afghanistan has created "a new refugee crisis, on top of record global displacement, with nearly a quarter of a million Afghans displaced within the country since May -- 80 per cent of them women and girls."
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