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Taliban tortured infants, children during five-year rule
Infants and young children were victims of torture and atrocities perpetrated by Afghanistan`s Taliban militia in the garb of religion and strict adherence to the faith during its five-year rule, an official website has said.
Infants and young children were victims of torture and atrocities perpetrated by Afghanistan`s Taliban militia in the garb of religion and strict adherence to the faith during its five-year rule, an official website has said.
Among the accounts of mutilations, beatings and arbitrary executions by the militia there was evidence of a new abomination - torture of children, the website of the US state department`s office of international information programs said quoting British and American media reports.
An unknown number of infants were savagely beaten during the Islamic militia`s 14-month occupation of Taloqan, the former headquarters of the Northern Alliance, usually for the supposed crimes of their parents, it said.
The barbarity of the Taliban plumbed new depths when troops shot dead eight boys in Kunduz recently for daring to laugh. The teenage lads had been chuckling at the soldiers who raised their Kalashnikov rifles and gunned them down. It said the Taliban is jailing children as young as 10 in Kabul to root out dissent... According to French journalist Michel Peyrard, who was held by the Taliban for 25 days, the biggest threat to the extremist regime is its own paranoia. He said his fellow detainees included several children.
In other heinous acts, the Taliban commanders killed 100 of our friends. They hung their bodies from lamp posts as a warning to the rest of us, it quoted a defector as saying.
According to the reports, Arab and Pakistani soldiers with the Taliban have also begun shooting young civilian men of Uzbek and Tajik ethnic groups suspected of trying to escape to territory controlled by Northern Alliance.
Bureau Report
An unknown number of infants were savagely beaten during the Islamic militia`s 14-month occupation of Taloqan, the former headquarters of the Northern Alliance, usually for the supposed crimes of their parents, it said.
The barbarity of the Taliban plumbed new depths when troops shot dead eight boys in Kunduz recently for daring to laugh. The teenage lads had been chuckling at the soldiers who raised their Kalashnikov rifles and gunned them down. It said the Taliban is jailing children as young as 10 in Kabul to root out dissent... According to French journalist Michel Peyrard, who was held by the Taliban for 25 days, the biggest threat to the extremist regime is its own paranoia. He said his fellow detainees included several children.
In other heinous acts, the Taliban commanders killed 100 of our friends. They hung their bodies from lamp posts as a warning to the rest of us, it quoted a defector as saying.
According to the reports, Arab and Pakistani soldiers with the Taliban have also begun shooting young civilian men of Uzbek and Tajik ethnic groups suspected of trying to escape to territory controlled by Northern Alliance.
Bureau Report