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Publish: 25 Sep 2021, 08:58 pm
Taliban Hang Bodies as Warning in City of Herat || Photo: Collected
The
Taliban are said to have hung the dead bodies of four alleged kidnappers
in public in the western city of Herat in an apparent warning.
The
gruesome display came a day after a notorious Taliban official warned that
extreme punishments such as executions and amputations would resume.
The
men were killed in a gun battle after allegedly seizing a businessman and his son,
a local official said.
News
agency AP was told a body was hung from a crane in the city centre.
Wazir
Ahmad Seddiqi, a local shopkeeper, told the agency that four bodies were
brought to the square, one was hung there and the three other bodies were moved
to other squares in the city to be displayed.
The
deputy governor for Herat, Maulwai Shair Ahmad Emar, was quoted by local media
as saying that Taliban fighters had tracked the alleged kidnappers down and
killed all of them in a firefight.
"We
hanged their dead bodies on the Herat squares to be a warning to the other
kidnappers," the official was quoted as saying.
The
BBC has not independently confirmed the circumstances under which the men were
killed.
However,
graphic images shared on social media appeared to show bloody bodies on the
back of a pick-up truck with a crane hoisting one man up.
Another
video showed a man suspended from a crane with a sign on his chest reading:
"Abductors will be punished like this."
Since
taking power in Afghanistan on 15 August, the Taliban have been promising a
milder form of rule than in their previous tenure.
But
there have already been numerous reports of human rights abuses carried out
across the country.
The
Taliban's notorious former head of religious police Mullah Nooruddin Turabi -
now in charge of prisons - said on Thursday that extreme punishments such as
executions and amputations would resume in Afghanistan as they were
"necessary for security".
In
an interview with AP, he said these punishments may not be meted out in public,
as they were under previous Taliban rule in the 1990s. Public executions were
frequently held in Kabul's sports stadium or on the vast grounds of the Eid Gah
mosque during the group's five year rule.
But
he dismissed outrage over their past public executions: "No-one will tell
us what our laws should be."
Turabi
- who is on a UN sanctions list for his past actions - added that
"everyone criticised us for the punishments in the stadium, but we have
never said anything about their laws and punishments".
In
August, Amnesty International said that Taliban fighters were behind the
massacre of nine members of the persecuted Hazara minority.
Amnesty's Secretary-General Agnès Callamard said at the time that the "cold-blooded brutality" of the killings was "a reminder of the Taliban's past record, and a horrifying indicator of what Taliban rule may bring". (BBC)
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