Afghanistan, Taliban: “Executions and amputations for safety”

Executions and amputations for thieves will soon be on the agenda in Afghanistan now controlled by the Taliban. This was announced by one of the founders of the Islamist movement, Noorduddine Turabi, who was the infamous minister for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice during the first experience of Taliban rule in the 1990s. “The cutting of the hands is extremely necessary for security,” Turabi said in an interview with the Washington Post and the PA, adding that the new bosses of Afghanistan are deciding whether to carry out these punishments in public as they once did, often. in front of crowds in stadiums. “Nobody will tell us what our laws must be,” said the former minister, who now heads the prisons. During the interview, given to a journalist, Turabi – who lost an eye and a leg in the war with the and that like other ministers is under US sanctions – he explained that the new Taliban government will allow the use of TV, cell phones and media. “This is the need of the people and we are serious about it – he concluded – Now we know that instead of reaching only hundreds of people, we can reach millions.” Meanwhile, in an interview with Sputnik, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, indicated as Deputy Minister of Information of the “provisional government”, said that “the United States has launched more than one dubious attack that has led to the deaths of civilians, destroyed health facilities and caused damage to homes and mosques. We will seek compensation”. Mujahid recalled the deaths of ten civilians, including seven children, in an American raid during the last days of evacuations from Kabul, before the withdrawal of US and NATO forces. General Kenneth McKenzie, head of the US Central Command, acknowledged that the raid was “decided on the belief that it would prevent an imminent threat to our forces and people trying to be evacuated through the airport but was an error “. Washington,” in those days, with his intervention in the airport area and in Kabul in general, resulted in the deaths of civilians, including women and children, “he said, speaking of a crime” against humanity “and asking for” justice “. “We will report him to the UN and – he added – to other bodies”.