A little more than a month after the capture of Kabul and the establishment of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the Taliban government is openly speaking of executions and amputations as a form of punishment for those sentenced under Qur’anic law. To report it to the Associated Press news agency is Nooruddin Turabi, one of the founders of the Taliban movement and former head of the organization and application of Islamic law in the country during the previous government of the mullahs: “The cutting of the hands is necessary for the security, ”said Turabi.
A statement that brings to mind the Taliban government of the 90s, a period in which the stadiums were used as public arenas for the execution, mutilation and stoning of the condemned. He celebrated the shooting that took place in 1999 in the Olympic stadium in Kabul, where in front of a crowd of 30 thousand people, the first public execution of a woman was staged: “Everyone criticized us for the punishments at the stadium, but we never said anything on their laws and their punishments. Nobody will tell us what our laws should be. We will follow Islam and make our laws according to the Koran », continues Turabi.
Since the capture of the capital on August 15, the whole world has had its eyes fixed on the military government of Kabul, to understand if and how the Taliban will recreate the climate of terror that had characterized the Emirate of the nineties. Numerous cases of violence have been reported in rural areas, where the eye of the international media fails to focus. What is certain is that the current government appointments seem in line with the deeply conservative and violent views of its predecessors. In some cases there is no disagreement: Turabi himself is currently the head of the penitentiary sector, while the interim head of government Mohammad Hasan Akhund, was another historical exponent of the mullahs era.