In Afghanistan’s Darkest Hour, the Taliban Must Know We Are Watching

Taliban officers now communicate of the resumption of executions and amputations as punishment, making a “tradition of impunity and an surroundings of worry,” Shaharzad Akbar, the chair of the Afghanistan Impartial Human Rights Fee, informed an internet discussion board Monday on the sidelines of the most recent UN Human Rights Council assembly. The Taliban are concentrating on former nationwide safety power members and their households, beating and torturing journalists, and erasing girls from public areas, Akbar stated. There even have been pressured displacements of the ethnic Hazara minority from their houses in a number of villages.