The Taliban have spread terror in Afghanistan: they have now shot a police chief

As they seek to convey a message of tolerance and restraint to the world, the Taliban have resorted to extreme violence in Afghanistan. In the last hours a kind of to hunt “from door to door” identify and murder those who oppose the regime, and after having killed the relative of a journalist from a German network posted a video of the execution of Haji Mullah Achakzai, The chief of police of the province of Badghis, located in the north-west of the country.

In the pictures you can see the agent kneeling, beaten and blindfolded. Mullah Achakzai nods, awaiting a shooting, and seconds later he is assassinated after receiving more than 10 strokes, which continue even while lying on the ground.

It was the extremist group itself that shared the striking images, Afghan security adviser Nasser Waziri told the magazine. News week. “He was surrounded by the Taliban and had no choice but to surrender last night. The Taliban had like one of his targets to Achakzai because he was a senior intelligence official ”, a former Afghan official detailed to the same media.

Hours before the police chief’s shooting, terrorists shot dead a relative of a journalist who worked for the Deutsche Welle (DW) in afghanistan and the one they were looking for, the German public broadcaster reported on its website on Friday.

Another relative of the journalist, whose identity has not been specified and who is now in Germany, was injured. Several members of his family managed to escape while the Taliban they went door to door.

“The murder of a relative of one of our editors by the Taliban yesterday (Thursday) is incredibly tragic and illustrates the serious danger faced by all our employees and their families in Afghanistan, ”said Peter Limbourg, CEO of the DW, that’s a statement.

“It is clear that the Taliban are already carrying out research operations organized to journalistsboth in Kabul and in the provinces, ”he said. “Hurry up !”

According to DW, the Taliban looted the homes of at least three of your journalists. With other means, DW He called on the German government to act quickly to help its Afghan staff.

Since taking power in Kabul on Sunday and across most of the country, the Taliban have tried to convince the world and the Afghans that they are not seeking revenge and that they are determined to reconcile. They promised to respect press freedom and forgive all their opponents.

They also ensured that they would not exercise power in the same way they did between 1996 and 2001, when they ruled the country and imposed an extremely rigorous view of Islamic law, which particularly penalized women and enforced punishment. brutal, like stoning to death.

However, a confidential UN document, consulted by the press agency AFP, says they are stepping up house to house search people who have worked with US and NATO forces.