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| A Brutal Taliban Shows Its True Colors This Past Week |
| 2015-10-04 |
| [Tolo News] Recent actions by Taliban Lions of Islam in Kunduz city have clearly shown how violent and brutal the group is today -- compared to what they were like in the mid-1990s. According to a number of politicians and members of the public, today's Taliban is not interested in joining the grinding of the peace processor and they show no mercy for their fellow Afghans. They say the recent utterance by the Taliban over joining the peace talks was mere lip-service as they have no intention to do so. "From the day Kunduz fell to Taliban until now, the people are burning in the fire," Shukria Paikan, an MP from Kunduz said. "Bodies are lying on the ground and people cannot burry them." "What the Taliban did in Kunduz was their real face. They showed that they don't know society, they don't accept young and elderly, they don't know humanity and they are the extreme [symbol] of brutality," another politician Qazi Nazir Ahmad commented. At one stage people had hoped that the Taliban had taken a more moderate direction politically but their action this past week following the siege of Kunduz has proven otherwise. This comes after officials condemned the Taliban's actions in the embattled northern city this week saying mass murders, gang rapes and house-to-house searches by Taliban death squads are just some of the harrowing civilian testimonies emerging from Kunduz city. According to ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... defenders from Kunduz spoke of a "hit list" being used by the Taliban to track down activists and others, and described how fighters had raped and killed numerous civilians. "The harrowing accounts we've received paint a picture of a reign of terror during the Taliban's brutal capture of Kunduz this week. The multiple credible reports of killings, rapes and other horrors meted out against the city's residents must prompt the Afghan authorities to do more now to protect civilians, in particular in areas where more fighting appears imminent," said Horia Mosadiq, Afghanistan Researcher at Kunduz city fell to the Taliban on Monday and despite concerted military action to regain control of the city fighting continues. |
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