In This Corner the Honourable Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
"The situation is chaotic, despite the Taliban assuring us that they will not go after former government officials or they will not be taking revenge, but unfortunately they have started that in some areas.""A number of civilians are killed, they are capturing people and killing them.""The situation for a person who worked in the previous government is proving to be dangerous." General Masoud Andarabi, formerly Interior Minister, Afghanistan
Taliban fighters patrol the streets of Kabul in an Afghan police pickup truck on Monday, August 16, after a stunningly swift end to Afghanistan’s 20-year war. Photo: -/AFP via Getty Images
Credible reports have arisen that the fears of thousands of Afghan civilians who had invested their trust and hopes for the future of their country in working alongside foreign missions and their armed forces, are marked for death. Alongside Afghans who were part of the elected government that had suddenly disintegrated. Not only government officials, but government workers at any level suddenly find themselves hunted, their days numbered.
A former provincial police chief was shot to death in what is considered a vengeance attack. According to high-placed Taliban officials at their takeover of Kabul, Afghans should relax, no one would be in danger of reprisals, all would be well, with the Taliban returning to power; there were no plans to exact revenge on Afghans who had worked for the Ghani government in any capacity. Though no mention was made of those working for Western allies.
Police Chief Sakh Akbari was situated in Farah province where before the sudden Islamist takeover of Afghanistan, security forces fought fierce battles with the Taliban. Chief Akbari was assassinated days following the Taliban claim that no reprisals would occur for those considered former enemies. Chief Akbari's body was dumped outside the family home, an obvious lapse in the Taliban pledge of civility.
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| Afghans gathered at a roadside close to Kabul airport hoping to be evacuated. Getty Images |
In Kandahar, Taliban officials have displayed billboards in celebration of a teen assassin who had murdered an Afghan general, Abdul Razik Achakzai, southern Afghanistan's most senor police commander. An American general had just escaped being killed in the same event. A terrorist youth posing as a guard killed him in 2018, a celebrated event, now on display in central Kandahar.
The Chief of Badghis Province near Herat was arrested by the Taliban when they seized the area last week. A graphic video circulated on Twitter shows General Haji Mullah Achakzi kneeling, blindfolded and handcuffed. And then executed by firing squad.
"He was surrounded by the Taliban and had no choice but to surrender last night,""The Taliban targeted Achakzai because he was a high-ranking intelligence official."Afghan security advisor Nasser Waziri
While the Taliban soothed the concerns of Afghans by stating an amnesty, and that people should "restart your routine life with full confidence" last week, Taliban are now going house-to-house searching out anyone who had worked with the former government or for foreign countries established with the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan, according to a United Nations intelligence analysis.
Mullah Abdul Qayyum Zakir was appointed acting defence minister, a man who had spent years at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre.
Labels: Afghanistan, Revenge Killings, Taliban
posted by Pieface @ Friday, August 27, 2021
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