Comments

You have commented 375 times on Rantburg.

Your Name

Your e-mail (optional)

Website (optional)

	My Original Nic Pic-a-Nic Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Foto

Submit your comments on this article

Afghanistan

Taliban’s Reign of Terror in Staggering Stats

2025-10-18

[PJMedia] A new report exposes thousands of disappearances and tortures, and hundreds of displaced families and killings, in just one province in Taliban
Taliban

...mindless ferocity in a turban...
-controlled Afghanistan.

Ever since the Biden administration’s disastrous, deadly, and shameful withdrawal from Afghanistan, the terrorist Taliban has been in full control of that country. That has been a catastrophe for the inhabitants, who now live under harsh and arbitrary sharia. And in Panjshir province,

…unlike the Pashtun Taliban, the residents of Panjshir are primarily Tajiks. Back under the first Talib government, the Tajiks fought alongside other non-Pashtuns in the Northern Alliance. This time round the original leadership and their sons tried again to fight as the National Resistance Council for the Salvation of Afghanistan, but lacking outside support they quickly succumbed…

under Taliban rule since September 2021, the terror and abuse have been quantified in shocking statistics.

We followed this closely for the first year or so after the Taliban reconquest, but unfortunately it became too unsafe for the news sites and bloggers to get the news out. Our long-term sources Tolo News and Khaama Press still report, but they play it very, very safe.

The Panjshiryan Worldwide Council (PWC) issued a report, translated in part by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), which provided the data. In Panjshir alone, there have been 15,500 arrests, disappearances, and examples of torture. PWC also found evidence of hundreds of targeted Taliban killings (543) in the last four years.

Furthermore, the Taliban carried out 285 seizures of private property and forcibly displaced more than 450 families.

From the report:

Targeted and mysterious killings, various kinds of torture, enforced disappearances of individuals, forced displacements, severe restrictions imposed on women and civil and cultural activists, banning girls and women from education, setting houses and schools on fire, turning educational centers into Taliban madrassas, the excessive creation of military bases, imposing psychological pressures, and increasing social restrictions are among the violations that the Taliban have committed against the common people in this province

Where PWC goes a little off the rails is in trying to claim these abuses are against Islamic teachings. They certainly are not, since Islamic texts endorse murder and harsh punishment for numerous reasons. That is especially true when it comes to women, which is why the Taliban deprived all female residents of Panjshir of their rights. Moslem women are second-class citizens, to use Western terminology. Education, employment, and healthcare are now barred or restricted for Panjshir women. Unfortunately for Panjshir, the locals are more moderate Moslems than the Taliban terrorists.

PWC noted that the forced displacement often deprives Panjshir locals of houses so that Taliban supporters who move in from other provinces can take the homes. Among the properties which the Taliban also seized are schools, mosques, and a hospital. One Taliban technique is to burn down educational institutions; another is to turn them into Taliban bases.

"The consequences of these cruel actions have inflicted deep psychological, social, economic, and educational harm on the Panjshir society and have threatened and endangered the physical and psychological security of the people's present and future," notes the report.

Posted by:trailing wife

#1 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Super Hose 2025-10-18 11:29

00:00