MONITORING (SW) – Officials of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan have reiterated the resolve to deal accordingly with the rule breakers while enforcing the general amnesty.
After the fall of the previous government, the officials of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan announced a general amnesty.
Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman for the Islamic Emirate, said in his maiden press conference that Afghanistan was no longer a battlefield and that there were no factors left to fight in Afghanistan.
“According to the Supreme Command of the ‘Amir al-Mu’minin’, all those who were opposed to us are pardoned, and we have pardoned them all,” he said. “We do not want war anymore, we do not want war to last, nor are the elements of war left. The Islamic Emirate has no enmity with anyone, the enmity is over in all aspects. We do not want to live in enmity. The Islamic Emirate does not want an internal enemy or a foreign enemy.”
But since then, there have been numerous reports and videos on social media showing that hundreds of people in Kabul and other provinces have been detained, beaten or killed by gunmen under various pretexts during the four months of the Islamic Emirate’s rule in Afghanistan.
For example, Homayoun Delshad and Zia-ud-Din, former army officers in Kunduz and Jawzjan provinces, Abdul Wahed Sahebzada, head of the Kunar primary court, Bismillah Shakir, head of the Arab Academy of Sciences in Kabul, Abdul Malik, former security officer, and Abdul Hakim, Sami Mojahedin, a former soldier and four women civil society activists, Dr. Vazin and Qader Tavana in Balkh and a 22-year-old man in Faryab, were first abducted and then mysteriously killed by gunmen.
In the latest case, a video has been circulated among social media users since yesterday, showing Rahmatullah Qaderi, a former soldier being beaten by gunmen.
But, Bilal Karimi, one of the deputy spokesmen for the Islamic Emirate, told Salam Watandar that the Islamic Emirate adheres to the amnesty decree and deals with violators legally, stressing that the amnesty is valid for all citizens. He acknowledged that some people were violating the amnesty decree, and that a commission had been set up to clear them, and that hundreds of people had been arrested in connection with the incidents.
On the other hand, reports released by Human Rights Watch this month stated that the forces of the Islamic Emirate have ousted more than 100 police and national security officers from the previous government since taking control of the country, despite a general amnesty, and they have been executed. The United Nations also reported the killing of eight civil society activists, two journalists, and 59 cases of illegal detention in the last four months.
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