KUNDUZ CITY (SW): A student who managed to escape Taliban’s deadly siege in Kunduz has claimed that the militants were running men’s slaughterhouse in this northern province.
Abdul Qudoos told Salam Watandar he was on his way to Takhar when the militant abducted him and took him and his fellow student to the slaughterhouse. He said the militants were beheading men on the basis of their linguistic identity and ties with the government.
He mentioned this slaughterhouse was in the Khan Abad district near the Pamir Wedding hall. Abdul Qudoos stated that the rebels have an executioner/ flagellant who do not look like an Afghan. The Taliban cut Abdul Qudoos’s finger and his friend’s hand. I saw a stream of blood where they were dumping the bodies; he claimed adding that he witnessed an execution when the rebels brought them to the place.
Commenting on this, Mohammad Hassan Haqyar, who served as deputy minister for mines and petroleum during the Taliban rule, has asserted the Taliban would not do such a thing. He added this was the act of foreign spies who wish to spread ethnic tension amongst the Afghans.
Haqyar told the Taliban have high ranking officials amongst their ranks from different ethnicities. “It is inhuman and anti-Islam act whoever has done it”, he said referring to the slaughterhouse in Kunduz.
According to the Amnesty International, mass murder, gang rapes and house-to-house searches by Taliban death squads were just some of the harrowing civilian testimonies emerging from Kunduz.
Horia Mosadiq, Afghanistan Researcher at Amnesty International said the multiple credible reports of killings, rapes and other horrors meted out against the city’s residents must prompt the Afghan authorities to do more now to protect civilians, in particular in areas where more fighting appears imminent.
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