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COMMENTS: Burn, Baby, Burn
NBC's Adrienne Mong was in Herat in western Afghanistan with chilling videotape. She introduced to the burn unit of a clinic run by French volunteers for teenage girls. Child brides set fire to themselves to escape sexual abuse and forced servitude at the hands of their elder husbands and their in-laws. Mong introduced us to a 17-year-old who died of her burns in her third year of marriage. Of the 51 brides who set themselves on fire and ended up at the clinic in the past six months, only 13 survived. "Her mother-in-law insists it was a kitchen accident."
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