- According to the United Nations, the Taliban are actively looking for their opponents.
- This contradicts the Taliban’s comments about their commitment to peace.
- A UN report stated that the Taliban had been conducting “door-to-door visits.”
According to a United Nations intelligence document, the Taliban are looking for opponents and their families from house to house, which has deepened concerns about the new Afghan ruler’s breach of tolerance promises on Friday.
After defeating government forces on Sunday and taking over Kabul to end a two-decade war, the leaders of the hardline Islamist movement have repeatedly vowed a complete amnesty as part of a carefully planned public relations blitz.
Women are also guaranteed that their rights will be respected, and the Taliban will be “completely different” from their brutal rule of 1996-2001.
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But because there are still thousands of people trying to flee the capital, the UN report confirms many people’s concerns.
According to the confidential documents of the UN threat assessment consultant seen by Agence France-Presse, the Taliban has been conducting “targeted door-to-door visits” to personnel cooperating with the United States and NATO forces.
The report, written by the Norwegian Global Analysis Center, stated that militants were also screening people on their way to Kabul Airport.
“Their target is the families of those who refuse to surrender and prosecute and punish their families’in accordance with Sharia law,’” Christian Nellemann, executive director of the organization, told AFP.
“We expect that people who previously worked with NATO/U.S. forces and their allies and their families will be tortured and executed.”
German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle also reported that the Taliban shot and killed a relative of a reporter while looking for an editor.
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“Yesterday the Taliban killed a close relative of one of our editors. This is an incredibly tragic incident that proves that all our employees and their families in Afghanistan are in extreme danger,” said Peter Limburg, Director-General of Deutsche Welle Say.
Crazy Afghans continue to flood into the Kabul airport and the roads leading to the airport, looking for a way to leave the country during the chaotic evacuation of foreign embassies.
A German government spokesman said on Friday that a German civilian was shot and killed on his way to the airport, adding that his life was not in danger.
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The Taliban have repeatedly stated that their fighters are not allowed to enter private homes.
Senior Taliban official Nazar Mohammad Mutmaeen insisted that this is still a policy, although he admitted that some of their fighters are breaking into property.
“Some people are still doing this, probably because of ignorance,” he said on Twitter.
“We are ashamed and there is no answer to this.”
The Taliban also insisted that women have nothing to fear under their new rule.
During their first time in power, women were excluded from public life and girls were forbidden to go to school.
People were stoned to death for adultery, and music and television were also banned.
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This week, a well-known female journalist posted a video online for a government-run TV station, providing a different reality for the Taliban’s new image of tolerance.
“Our lives are threatened,” said Shabnam Dawran, the anchor of the state-owned broadcaster RTA, when he said that he was barred from entering the office.
“Male employees, those with office cards are allowed to enter the office, but I was told that I cannot continue my work because the system has changed.”
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This week there were signs of isolation against the Taliban in parts of Afghanistan.
At an Independence Day rally in Pashtunistan Square in Kabul, Taliban fighters mobilized to control the crowd raising the flag of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
On Thursday, a small group of Afghans waved the country’s black, red, and green flags in Kabul and a few suburbs to celebrate the anniversary of Afghanistan’s independence—sometimes in the clear sight of patrolling Taliban fighters.
On Wednesday, Taliban militants opened fire to disperse dozens of flag-waving Afghans in Jalalabad.
Russia also emphasized on Thursday that a resistance movement led by the deposed Vice President Amrullah Saleh and the son of the killed anti-Taliban fighter Ahmed Masood is forming in the Panjshir Valley.
“The Taliban does not control the entire territory of Afghanistan,” said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
In the Panjshir Valley northeast of Kabul, Masood, the son of Ahmed Shah Masood, Afghanistan’s most famous anti-Taliban fighter, said he was “ready to follow in his father’s footsteps”.
“But we need more weapons, more ammunition and more supplies,” Masood wrote in the Washington Post.
The United States said on Thursday that it had airlifted approximately 7,000 people out of Kabul in the past five days.
A video on social media showed that Afghans lifted a crying baby from a desperate crowd at the airport and handed it to an American soldier.
The Afghan Sports Federation announced that a national youth team football player fell and died from an American plane that was desperately seized during takeoff.
