Taliban continues unabated human rights violations amid recent intensification of conflict

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Updated: 08/10/2021 06:59 IS

Accept [Afghanistan]Aug 10 (ANI): Amid the recent escalation of conflict with the Afghan government, the Taliban continue to violate human rights by killing civilians, destroying mosques and attacking women.
Taliban fighters kidnapped two policewomen on Sunday in the city of Ghazni on their way home from work. They have now been taken to an undisclosed location by the Taliban.
The Afghan Interior Ministry announced on Saturday that the Taliban had carried out terrorist attacks on 24 mosques since the beginning of the year.
The ministry’s statement said 30 religious scholars were killed and 70 injured in these attacks. In addition, mosques have been severely damaged by Taliban attacks.
The areas that fell to the Taliban in Afghanistan in the past few days have seen horrors from the past. Taliban forces reportedly killed civilians and security guards off duty, bombed homes and attacked women.
The Taliban continue to conquer new territories and then impose a regime that seeks to restore Afghanistan under his rule to the old days, which means the non-existence of human values ​​and even the death penalty for petty crimes or rule violations.
The Taliban attacked Ahmad Shah Abdali Kandahar airport on the morning of August 8 and fired several rockets at parts of the airport. Flights were suspended after rocket attacks and resumed late at night later that day.
Toofan Omari, the head of Paktia Voice Radio and “Prosecutor for Combating Crimes of Internal and External Security in the Judicial Center of Bagram Prison,” was killed by the Taliban in Dehsabz district in Kabul province, the Khaama Press news agency reported.
Paktia police announced on August 8 that a mine exploded in the Chaniya area of ​​Sayed Karam district, Paktia province, killing 12 people, including women and children, and injuring two others.

Mustapha Ben Messaoud, Chief Field Operations, UNICEF Afghanistan, said that while children are being forced to leave their homes, most of the time they are not being fed healthily. They don’t even know where their other food is coming from.
In addition, Messaoud predicts that by the end of this year every second child under the age of five in Afghanistan will be mentally ill or malnourished due to malnutrition and will not be able to attend school.
A young child was killed in an attack by the Taliban in Takhar province. Several videos surfaced on social media of the toddler’s sister crying and trying to wake her brother up.
Zubair Shah Agha, a member of the Central Committee of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), shared an emotional video of an Afghan woman trying to convey the pain of the people of the country.
“Greet the woman with both hands who interpreted the Afghans’ pain. The world media, human rights organizations and human rights activists have come together to keep quiet about the murderers. The Pashtun-Afghan genocide has been going on for 40 years.” . And the world is just watching, “said the PTM member in a tweet (roughly translated from the Pashto).
After conquering new territories in Afghanistan, the Taliban re-imposed repressive laws and backward policies on Afghan women that defined their rule from 1996-2001 when they enforced their version of Islamic Sharia law.
New fatwas (decrees) issued by them prohibit women from leaving their homes without a male companion while forcing men to grow beards. They also came up with dowry regulations for girls, said Merajuddin Sharifi, a social activist.
They issued a statement calling on the women not to leave home without a male relative. The Taliban insist on trial without evidence, “he said.
There are more sanctions against women. Now they cannot drive a taxi and always be covered in a burqa. In memory of old memories, the Taliban banned the production and distribution of music and all audiovisual entertainment.
Women are more affected by the brutalities of the Taliban. They are beaten and even killed in public. Innocent Afghan women are being forced into “Jihad al-Nikah”, in which daughters and wives are forcibly sent to terrorists for sexual service.
The sporadic killings aptly describe how much the Taliban care about human rights. Human rights violations and killing of civilians, including children, by the Taliban in war-torn country reach new highs. (ANI)