The unusual videos of the Taliban in Afghanistan: they got on the bumper cars and the merry-go-round | the Chronicle

Taking I accept speak taliban put the eyes of the world on Afghanistan. The most iconic images are of the group in the main chair of the government house or the shocking video of crowded plane about to take off with people hanging and falling from the air.

And as thousands of people try to flee the Afghan capital and Thousands of women fear growing up at the obvious risk of losing their rights With the return to power of the Islamic fundamentalist group, videos of strange situations have appeared in which the militiamen are the protagonists of unusual events.

In the middle of an almost empty city, the Taliban have taken over the entertainment areas. The images were published on Twitter and quickly goes around the world: we can see Taliban in a childish attitude playing in the bumper cars or the merry-go-round in an amusement park.

“It seems all they wanted was free rides to the theme park.”, published the international correspondent Chakib Noori, one of the representatives of the international press who described the whole process with Hamid Shalizi, Reuters correspondent and CNN reporter Clarisse Ward.

More images posted on Twitter by the journalist Asaad Hanna show hypotheses Taliban soldiers jumping on a trampoline.

Likewise, images of Taliban fighters were posted on social media. they shouted “Victoria” inside the presidential palaceHim in Kabul. The photos went around the world: militiamen entered the building and toured the main rooms, including the office of the former president Achraf Ghani Ahmadzai, who fled the country for supposedly “avoid a bloodbath.”

Twenty-four hours later, material of the arrival at the official residence continued, such as the video where the Taliban themselves try the palace gym with various physical exercises. The Taliban’s eruption was also observed on the public channel, where the guerrillas intervened, who gave a strange opening speech without looking at the camera.

The images, which did not take long to go viral, are functional according to Suhail Shaheen, a spokesperson for the Taliban based in Qatar, who ensured that the new version of the organization would be “understood”. “We want to work with any Afghan, we want to open a new chapter of peace, tolerance, peaceful coexistence and national unity for the country and for the Afghan people,” he added. Tenuous.

The most curious videos of the Taliban after the capture of Kabul

Why did the United States leave Afghanistan?

The Taliban returns to power after 20 years of US military occupation and advanced with a crash after the departure of the troops announced by Joe biden in May.

In a month, at least 183 civilians, including children, died in Lashkar Gah, Kandahar, Herat (west) and Kunduz, and nearby 360,000 people fled their homes since early 2021, according to UN data.

Finally, last Monday, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani went into exile, effectively handing over the country to the Taliban, whose leaders said that “The war is over” in the country after having occupied the capital.

During this day the US government reaffirmed its withdrawal from Kabul, as Biden confirmed on “end of the American presence in Afghanistan” At the same time, he suggested that local authorities – funded for decades by the United States – had been unwilling to confront the Taliban: “We gave them every chance to determine their own future”he noted at a press conference.

The Islamist group ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001 until it was ousted from power by US-led forces following the September 11 attacks on the Twin Towers. According to foreign policy, The United States has invested nearly $ 83 billion in training Afghan security forces defend against a Taliban incursion.