Taliban shot and beheaded famous comedian who mocked them on TikTok

A video shows the moment he was kidnapped from his home. (Photo: video capture).

Despite the fact that the Taliban, who have ruled Afghanistan for more than a week, claim to have changed and will not seek revenge, the first appear execution reports and door-to-door searches of opponents. As reported Human Rights Watch, one of the recent victims of the insurgents was the actor Nazar mohamed, to which they murdered to make fun of them.

The man was known as Khasha Zwan on TikTok, where he made daily jokes and parodies, mostly through songs. Some of his jokes were harshly critical of the jihadists.

Crime it happened on July 22, but in recent days a video has gone viral where the comedian is seen in a car surrounded by Taliban armed with AK-47s. It was the day when kidnapped from his home in Kandahar, and the last record of the living comedian. In the footage, Mohammad continues to make fun of them. His irreverence angered one of the Taliban who slapped him repeatedly. Soon after they found him hands tied behind his back, riddled with bullets and slit his throat.

“Apparently the Taliban forces executed Khasha Zwan for making fun of the Taliban leadership,” said Patricia Gossman, associate director for Asia at Human Rights Watch. “His assassination and other recent abuses demonstrate the willingness of Taliban commanders to violently crush even the smallest criticisms or objections.”

If at first the insurgents denied having committed the crime, they ended up accepting responsibility and admitting that the two men were indeed Taliban. Group spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the two were arrested with the aim of being tried.

In an attempt to justify the crime, Mujahid also claimed the comedian was a member of the Afghan National Police and had been involved in the torture and murder of the Taliban. Mujahid said the Taliban should have arrested the comedian and brought him to Taliban court, rather than killing him.

The brutality of the massacre increased fears of revenge attacks. It also undermined the Taliban’s assurances that people working for the US government, US military, or US organizations would not be harmed.

According to some reports, the Taliban they hold hundreds of people in the regions they have conquered. Schools have been burnt down and there are reports of restrictions placed on women in some areas, similar to those that were in place when insurgents last ruled Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001. At that time, girls saw each other. deny access to school and women to work.

The UN denounces “executions of civilians”

This Tuesday, Michelle bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said his office had received “Credible reports of serious violations of international humanitarian law and attacks on human rights in many areas under Taliban control ”.

It is, among other things, “executions of civilians and members of the Afghan security forces (…), restrictions on women’s rights (…), recruitment of child soldiers and repression of peaceful demonstrations ”.

“Human rights violations undermine the legitimacy of their perpetrators vis-à-vis the population and also vis-à-vis regional and international institutions and vis-à-vis other states,” the official said. .

The way the Taliban treat women, especially with regard to their right to education, will represent a “red line,” Bachelet warned.

“A critical red line will be how the Taliban treat women and girls and respect their rights to liberty, freedom of movement, education, self-expression and employment, in accordance with standards international human rights issues, ”the official said. .

The UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday adopted a resolution on Afghanistan in which it underlines the “need to investigate promptly and transparently” all allegations of human rights violations and of international humanitarian law “committed by the various parties to the conflict, and that they are responsible and held responsible”.

But the text, adopted by consensus at the end of an extraordinary meeting of the body, does not provide for an international investigation mechanism and is limited to asking Bachelet to present a report in the first quarter of 2022.