This story is from September 25, 2021
Witness: Taliban hang dead body in Afghan city's main square
KABUL
: The Taliban hanged a dead body from a crane in the main square ofHerat
city in westernAfghanistan
, a witness said Saturday, in a gruesome display that signaled a return to some of the Taliban's methods of the past.Wazir Ahmad Seddiqi
, who runs a pharmacy on the side of the square, told The Associated Press that four bodies were brought to the square and three bodies were moved to other squares in the city to be displayed.Seddiqi said the Taliban announced in the square that the four were caught taking part in a kidnapping and were killed by police. It was not immediately clear if the four were killed in a firefight with police or after their arrest.
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There was no immediate comment from the Taliban.
Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, one of the founders of the Taliban and the chief enforcer of its harsh interpretation of Islamic law when they last ruled Afghanistan, told The Associated Press this week that the hard-line movement will once again carry out executions and amputations of hands, though perhaps not in public.
Wazir Ahmad Seddiqi, who runs a pharmacy on the side of the square, told The Associated Press that four bodies were brought to the square and three were moved to the other squares in the city to be hanged.
Top Comment
Allath
1140 days ago
Inspite of world watching this,and world having say the barbarism of Afghanistan is this.just imagine how much Parsis might have suffered in their own country they ran and came to india.just imagine the Indian part of Afghanistan genocide by Arabs Turks in the name of religion how it must have been.wat drives them to do this crime is sex driven power driven holiness .lift women who r non Talibani and loot licence is what drives them for conquest.u give same licence to other religion same conquest will start .ask Chinese men give them ak and ask them go conquer ,lift their children,loot their wealth lift their women and nobody is there to stop them they will become like arabs.liscence for paedophile,free looted maalRead allPost comment
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