Kabul [Afghanistan] September 27 (ANI): The Taliban brutally executed a child in Takhar province of Afghanistan after his father is suspected to be a part of the Afghan Resistance Forces.
The brutality has been reported by Panjshir Observer which is an independent media covering Panjshir and Afghanistan situation.
“Child executed in Takhar province by Taliban fighters after his father is suspected of being in the Resistance. #WarCrimes #Afghanistan,” Panjshir Observer said in a tweet.
The incident reflects the Taliban‘s crackdown on Afghans who raised voices against the outfit.
The Taliban after the siege of Afghanistan is trying to deliver a moderate image to the world in an attempt to gain international confidence but experts say that the scenes at the Kabul airport were proof that the terrorist group has returned with the same radical and violent mindset.
Violence was an integral trait of the Taliban even in their previous term. The so-called transfer of power exercised in Kabul without any bloodshed, was nothing but a part of ‘good image plan’, Inside Over reported.
As the Taliban took control of Afghanistan once again after 20 years, experts also believe that Afghan women are most likely to face an uncertain future under the terrorist group regime.
Thousands of Afghans still desperate to flee from their country
As the Taliban took control of Afghanistan once again after 20 years, thousands of people are still desperate to flee from the troubled country, turning to any possible route and in fear for their lives, according to media reports.
“It has been my third time changing locations in the last couple of months,” New York Post quoted Mir, 28, as saying anxiously from a distant relative’s home near an Afghan border town. “Everyone locally here knows me as ‘the driver.’ My youngest brother last year was targeted and killed by unidentified people. Taliban carry out night raids now and take people out. I am safe because they haven’t located me so far,” Mir added.
Mir started working as a driver for the US military and contractors when he was just 16 years old, he explains, unveiling a trove of carefully kept certificates, documents and letters of recommendation. He and six other members of his family — including his mother, sister, niece, wife and their two children, ages 4 and 8 months — at the time were waiting on tenterhooks to get the green light on an escape plan, New York Post reported.
Mir said he had not received any direct threats or correspondence from the Taliban, yet his sister Aki claims her husband disappeared when the extremist group took Kandahar several days before Kabul fell, the publication further reported.
“He used to work at the Kandahar airport and had a shop,” she said, adding that “I don’t know where he is, if he is in jail, or alive, or dead.”
The United States forces completed the process of leaving Afghanistan on August 31, marking the end of a chaotic and messy exit from America’s longest war.
Meanwhile, over 120,000 people were evacuated by the United States and its partner nations in the final frantic weeks of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
It is been over a month since the Taliban captured Kabul after an aggressive and rapid advance against Afghanistan government forces. The country plunged into crisis last month after Kabul fell to the Taliban and the democratically elected government of former president Ashraf Ghani collapsed. (ANI)
ICC prosecutor requests to resume investigation of war crimes in Afghanistan
The Hague [Netherlands], September 27 (ANI/Sputnik): International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan said on Monday he has asked the court to let him resume the inquiry into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan as he does not find the new authorities in Kabul fit to litigate independently.
“Today, I filed an application for an expedited order before Pre-Trial Chamber II of the ICC seeking authorization for my Office to resume its investigation in the Situation in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan,” Khan said in a statement.
The prosecutor’s office started the Afghan investigation on March 5, 2020. Three weeks later, the government asked the ICC to let it investigate the crimes on its own and the court agreed. Khan praised the former government for its effort but called into question the ability of the new government to ensure an “adequate and effective” continuation of the probe.
“Recent developments in Afghanistan and the change in the national authorities, represent a significant change of circumstances with import for our ongoing assessment of the deferral request. After reviewing matters carefully, I have reached the conclusion that, at this time, there is no longer the prospect of genuine and effective domestic investigations into Article 5 crimes within Afghanistan,” the prosecutor said.
He expressed readiness, however, to “constructively engage” with the new government “in accordance with the principle of complementarity.”
The Taliban (designated terrorist and banned in Russia) formed an interim government in Afghanistan earlier this month. The ICC hopes to investigate the atrocities committed by the Islamist movement in the years preceding its takeover in August, including indiscriminate attacks on civilians, targeted extrajudicial executions, persecution of women and girls, and crimes against children. (ANI/Sputnik)
