Taliban massacres 13 members of Hazara community; 17-year-old girl among the slain

Cairo/Kabul: – Taliban terrorists have brutally murdered thousands of people from the Hazara community despite surrendering. Anger against the Taliban has intensified after a 17-year-old girl was found to be slain. Human rights organisations took serious cognisance of this development. There have been no changes in the old and current policies of Taliban. The human rights groups have made vitriolic criticism that the terrorist group is carrying out massacres of minorities. A month ago, the Taliban called for the surrender of Afghan soldiers. Taliban leaders have promised to recruit surrendered soldiers and police officers under the Taliban regime. Accordingly, 11 Afghan soldiers in Kahor village in Daikundi province of Afghanistan expressed readiness to surrender; their families also accompanied them. All these soldiers belonged to the Hazara minority community.

The Taliban militants opened fire on these Afghan soldiers after seizing their weapons. They killed eleven soldiers and two others; among them was a 17-year-old girl. This is the largest massacre of the Hazara minority, by the Taliban, in the last month and a half since Taliban took control of Kabul. This makes it clear that minorities in Afghanistan are not safe from the Taliban.

The Taliban had assured that the minorities in Afghanistan would be safe under their rule. But the Taliban once again demonstrated inhumane cruelty by killing 13 members of the Hazara community. The Taliban-appointed commander for Daikundi province claimed that there was no massacre of the Hazara minority. However, Taliban spokesmen Zabiullah Mujahid and Bilal Karimi declined to comment on the allegations.

The Taliban, which has already banned girls’ education, has drawn worldwide criticism. This has once again exposed the brutal face of the Taliban to the world, and has also put those who support the Taliban in trouble. French President Emmanuel Macron has demanded that the issue of girls’ education in Afghanistan be raised in the G20. President Macron appealed not to cooperate with the Taliban unless the Taliban meets the international community’s demands.

But the Taliban is unwilling to change its oppressive rules on girls’ education. On the other hand, Abdul Baki Haqqani, the new Taliban education minister, announced that the education provided in Afghan schools and universities from 2000 to 2020 and the graduates who passed through it were useless. Instead, Haqqani said that Afghanistan’s education system would be based entirely on religion. Therefore, it is being criticised that the Taliban is taking Afghanistan back 20 years.

The international community may react sharply to the Taliban‘s brutal attacks on minorities while pursuing radical policies. Amnesty International has levelled a strong accusation that the Taliban have demonstrated that there has been no change in their attitude by killing 13 members of the Hazara community.