eye-catcher: the Taliban hang the bodies of criminals in squares in Afghanistan

The The Taliban, an extremist group returned to power in Afghanistan, they hung a corpse from a crane parked in a plaza in what represents a warning message for those who break the rules.

As reported by the agency Associated press, Taliban officials initially they took four bodies to the central square of the western town of Herat, then moved three to other parts of the city for public display.

Wazir Ahmad Seddiqi, owner of a pharmacy on the side of Herat Square, explained that the four bodies, which were allegedly captured during an attempted kidnapping of a trader and a civilian. The four executed were held captive in a nearby area.

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According to Maulwai Shair Ahmad Emar, Taliban vice-governor of Herat, Taliban fighters they had followed the suspected kidnappers and killed them all in a shootout.

Police closed the lanes out of town and the Taliban arrested men at a checkpoint, where “there was a shooting,” the deputy governor told AFP.

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“To teach the other kidnappers a lesson (…), we hang them in the city squares and we tell everyone that anyone who steals or kidnaps or takes action against our people will be punished, ”he also told the agency.

“The objective of this action is to alert all criminals that they are not safe “a Taliban commander who did not identify himself during a camera interview in the square told the agency.

The Taliban publicly execute a man for kidnapping in Herat, Afghanistan. The mask is off. The Taliban are back. The brutal summary-style execution is back. pic.twitter.com/H9b2DdMUKU

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Images posted on social media showed bloody bodies in the back of a pickup truck as a tow truck lifted a man. Crowds of people watched as the armed Taliban fighters gathered around the vehicle.

Another video showed a man hanging from a crane in a large roundabout in Herat with a sign on his chest that read: “The kidnappers will be punished this way.”

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The posting in various city squares is the most notorious public punishment since the Taliban came to power last month and is a sign that die-hard Islamists will take frightening measures under their previous regime from 1996 to 2001. .

In recent days, one of the Taliban leaders had announced the return of executions and hand amputations, led by the ultra-conservative mullah Nooruddin Turabi.

The old man, who was one of the founders of the movement and the main author of the harsh interpretation of Islamic law when they were in power in the 1990s, said reinstatement of executions or amputations was being considered to punish certain crimes.

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