The Taliban have launched a fascinating attack since they recaptured Afghanistan.
The Islamists are trying to convince them that they have changed in relation to the tyrannical regime that carried out regular public executions, stonings, mutilations, oppressed women and collaborated with Al Qaeda, and that the new Taliban will now respect freedom, equality and fundamental human values.
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But the reality is very different, as Afghanistan’s new dictators have already provided handwriting samples, proving that they are as bloodthirsty as the previous generation of Islamists, who ruled the country from 1996 to 2001 with an iron fist and opposed dissidents.
Amnesty International has revealed that last month, when the Taliban seized control of Ghazni province, militants massacred nine members of the Khazara minority, Afghanistan’s third-largest (accounting for 9% of the estimated 40,000,000 people), who mainly embraces Shiite Islam, is of Mongolian and Central Asian descent and has been severely persecuted in the past by the Sunni Taliban.
The eyewitness accounts gathered by the organization for the killings in the village of Mundaracht between 4 and 6 July are shocking.
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Six of the victims were shot and the other three were tortured until they recovered, including a man who was strangled with his handkerchief and had his arm muscles amputated.
According to reports, despite the Taliban’s claims that they would not prosecute those who resisted their tyranny, their members also coldly executed a police chief.
Shocking images circulating on the Internet show General Haji Mullah Atsakzai, the head of the police in the province of Batzis, near Herat, kneeling, handcuffed and blindfolded, receiving a barrage of bullets.
The victim fell into the hands of the Taliban near the border with Turkmenistan during their lightning advance last week.
The 60-year-old general was a sworn enemy of the Taliban and was at the forefront of the government forces’ fight against the organization.
The governor and police chief of Laghman province in eastern Afghanistan have reportedly been arrested and their fate will be decided by jihadist leaders.
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Meanwhile, Taliban members searching from house to house in western Afghanistan for a Deutsche Welle journalist killed a relative, while other relatives managed to escape at the last minute.
The brutal execution comes amid numerous reports of the Taliban searching door-to-door homes in some areas and arresting men of fighting age.
Senior Afghan officials told Britain’s The Telegraph that they had been forced into hiding to escape capture by the Taliban, who have seized databases containing government figures.
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The jihadists are stepping up the hunt for those who collaborated with US and NATO forces in the country, according to a confidential report submitted to the UN, putting interpreters at the crossroads.
Despite their claims of “amnesty”, gruesome videos show Taliban fighters raining bullets a few meters away from women and children besieging the perimeter of Kabul airport in the hope of boarding one of the refugee planes.
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The dossier submitted to the UN by the Norwegian Center for Global Analysis and leaked to the New York Times states that the Taliban “arrest, threaten to kill or arrest relatives, and demand the surrender of dissidents.”
