There is another important angle to this that the report below, true to establishment media form, doesn’t mention: around 10 percent of Afghanistan is Shi’ite, and almost all of that ten percent are Hazaras. But any Islamic jihad aspect of a story is certain to be ignored or downplayed in establishment media reports.
“Afghanistan: Nine ‘tortured and butchered in mountains’ by Taliban,” by Jonathan Prynn, Evening Standard, August 20, 2021:
Taliban fighters massacred nine men from Afghanistan’s Hazara ethnic minority last month in a “horrifying indicator” of what may lie ahead, says a report from Amnesty International.
The human rights group detailed how the men were butchered after the Taliban took control of the mountainous Ghazni province in the centre of Afghanistan.
Six of the men were shot and three were tortured to death, including one man strangled with his own scarf. He had his arm muscles sliced off.
Another man was so heavily shot in the chest he was buried in pieces, according to witnesses.
One of the victims, 75-year-old Sayeed Ahmad, had insisted the Taliban would not harm him because of his age and that he intended to return to his village to feed his cattle. He was executed with two bullets to the chest and another in his side….
Infidel says
If Iran responds negatively towards the Taliban on this story, then there goes the current marriage of convenience b/w Iran and the Taliban. Leading to yet another Alien vs Predator situation
If Iran does nothing, then that factoid can be used to make it clear to shi’as in other countries – Iraq, Bahrein, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Lebanon, Pakistan, Tajikistan, et al that Iran doesn’t give 2 hoots about the shi’a, whose protector they parade themselves as. Hopefully eroding even the core shi’a support that the regime has
Win-win either way in this otherwise sordid fiasco that Biden has created
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Muslim on Muslim racism! When are America’s White Supremacists going to put an end to this or are they as insensitive and uncaring as they appear to be?
Westman says
“Say it ain’t so, Joe!” Taliban v2.0
gravenimage says
Afghanistan: Taliban torture and butcher nine men from largely Shi’ite Hazara minority
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This was predictable–exactly what the Taliban did last time they were in power.