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| Northern Afghanistan:Couple Stoned To Death by Taliban |
| 2010-08-16 |
| Northern Afghanistan seems to be getting more out of control... this from The Hindu: The Taliban has stoned to the death a couple in northern Afghanistan over charges of adultery, according to a provincial Afghan official. Where's HRW? The Governor of the Kunduz province said on Monday a man and woman were publicly killed over an alleged love affair. "The two were stoned to death in a bazaar of Dasht-e Archi district on the accusation of committing the act of adultery," said Mohammad Omar. They have to provide some kind of entertainment since they ban everything else. Last week, Islamist militants publicly flogged and killed a woman, accused of adultery, in the Badhgis province in northwestern Afghanistan, said officials. No HRW there either? These killings in Kunduz, if confirmed, would be the first of their kind by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan, where the militant group has comparatively lower influence than in the south. The stoning follows last week's call by a section of clerics for the imposition of a strict code of Islamic law that has frequently awarded capital punishment. Paging Mr. Dostum to the black courtesy phone, Mr. Dostum ... Afghan authorities say the Taliban had arrested the couple following complaints by their parents, as the two were to be married to separate individuals. The Taliban, during their rule of Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001, is known to have imposed draconian punishments on people who did not subscribe to its strict code of social behaviour. A recent study by the United Nations has held the Taliban responsible for 76 per cent of Afghan civilian deaths, estimated at 1271, which have surged in the first half of 2010. Coming from the UN, that is pretty important. Doubt if it will get much play in the US. |
| Posted by:Free Radical |
| #4 "we're gonna need a lot more shipping containers, and air freshener" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-08-16 21:34 |
| #3 Paging Mr. Dostum to the black courtesy phone, Mr. Dostum ... General Dostum would have us out of Afghanistan in short order. He is a brutally effective fearless warrior and leader who mounts up, charges into the fray, leading by example. Brutality is the key to defeating these vermin. Dostum is the man we need right now. Unfortunately our current administratin will shun the warrior and stick with Karzai the crook and drug dealer. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-08-16 21:11 |
| #2 And Kagan is for Sharia law. |
| Posted by: miscellaneous 2010-08-16 20:24 |
| #1 I heard on the radio that the woman died (of course, she was probably buried up to her neck according to custom), and that the man survived (they probably buried him up to his waist according to custom). So the Taliban shot him. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-08-16 13:46 |