Editor in Chief: Moh. Reza Huwaida Thursday, March 28th, 2024

No One Can Justify Taliban Crimes

No One Can Justify  Taliban Crimes

KABUL - The Chief Executive of the National Unity Government (NUG) Abdullah Abdullah on Monday said that the Taliban's crimes are being justified by some elements within government who also try to cover up these deeds.

He said that no one has the right to justify crimes committed by the Taliban.

He added that insurgents do not recognize religion, nation nor tribe and that they kill people indiscriminately.

He accepted the government's shortcomings in the fall of Kunduz, saying that a number of circles within government – knowingly or unknowingly – justify Taliban's crimes.

"It will not be allowed to justify the Taliban's crimes. We all know that terrorism does not know religion, nation nor tribe. It is unfortunate that their [Taliban's] crimes are justified from the government's tribune," Abdullah said.

He said Kunduz residents were warned months ago that their province will face such a fate, but the government did not pay enough attention to this matter.

Meanwhile, at least 400 residents on Monday carried out a sit in along roads near the Parliament House in Kabul, saying that they lost everything in the Kunduz battle.

They claimed that a number of people placed Taliban fighters in people's houses in Kunduz ahead of the siege.

"They torched our houses and we left the city leaving all behind. We were hit by airplanes from the air and by the Taliban from the ground," Feroza, a resident of Kunduz told TOLOnews.

Another resident of Kunduz said: "They killed a woman inside the city. Her body was covered in flies. There was no one to take the dead bodies away. We are upset with President Ghani."

Abdul Rahman, a resident of Kunduz said many of the 600 prisoners which were freed from Kunduz prison by the Taliban were armed and looted people's houses.

This comes in the wake of the security forces' successful ousting of the Taliban in Kunduz city after the city was under siege for six days. Earlier on Monday, troops were still in clashes with insurgents in some parts of the city, but residents were slowly resuming their normal lives. (Tolonews)