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 PA picked up by the Washington Post, adding that the new masters 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 Soviets and who like other ministers is under US sanctions – explained that the new Taliban government will allow the use of TV. mobile 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 information minister 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 houses and mosques. We will ask for 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 its intervention in the airport area and in Kabul in general, caused the deaths of civilians, including women and children,” he said, speaking of a crime “against humanity” and asking ” justice”. “We will report him to the UN and – he added – to other bodies”.