My father said you cannot continue with your education. You have to get married because this man has already paid dowry for you.
I felt very sad. I couldn’t go to school, dowry was paid, and I could not disobey my father. I did not know my husband before.
The village elders supported my father’s decision for me to get married. I had nothing to do. I had no way out but to allow to get married.
My husband was very poor. When I would get sick, he would not even have money to take me to the hospital.
As told to researchers for Human Rights Watch
