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| More testimonies emerge regarding Taliban violence against women in Kunduz |
| 2015-10-18 |
| [Khaama (Afghanistan)] New testimonies have emerged regarding the Taliban violence, particularly against women, in the historic provincial capital of Kunduz province which was overrun by the group late last month. Methodically targeting a host of female rights workers and journalists just hours after seizing control of the city, are the latest testimonies emerged recently. The barbaric killing of a close relative of a local female radio host is one of the latest testimonies emerged after the Afghan cops retook the control of the city last week. According to the female radio host who spoke on the condition of anonymity , a group of Taliban bully boyz knocked her door, saying "We know a woman in your house works in an office." "When my uncle denied it, he was taken outside and rubbed out. His body lay in the streets for days -- no one dared to go out and get it," she told AFP. Besides the murders, rape or sexual assault, kidnappings, the Talibs included attack on women's shelters as one of their main targets. Such shelters give refuge countrywide to runaway girls, domestic abuse victims and those at the risk of "honour killings" by their relatives, which the Taliban have often denounced the shelters as dens of "immorality" and labelled the women who seek shelter there as "sluts". Haseena Sarwari, the Kunduz director of Women for Afghan Women, a NGO which ran a shelter housing 13 women, told AFP that she received an abrupt phone call from the head of the Taliban's vice and virtue department soon after they took the city. Right before the city fell to Taliban control, Sarwari had received an astonishing letter, wrapped in a wedding card, warning her that she would be married off to a Taliban capo. Sarwari who managed to flee the city in a burqa said the threat could not be dismissed lightly as in some areas overrun by the Taliban, the bully boyz are known to have married off wives of government officers to their cadres, treating the women as spoils of war. She also recalled seeing a band of thickset bully boyz wrapped in bandoliers of ammunition at Taliban checkpoints, rifling through women's purses for any government IDs and scrolling through mobile phones for contacts. The latest testimonies further confirm the atrocities committed by Talibs after overrunning the city despite the group rejects the reports as baseless. The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) also released its report on Thursday, confirming earlier reports regarding the group's atrocities in Kunduz city, including murders, rape, kidnappings, use of civilians as shields, looting of public and private properties. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Sorry, they're in the wrong ethnic and voter demographic sets. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-10-18 13:23 |
| #2 The real war on women. The donk's should be ashamed. |
| Posted by: Sven the pelter 2015-10-18 12:33 |
| #1 New testimonies have emerged regarding the |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2015-10-18 09:38 |