KABUL: Thousands of Afghans fled from the cities captured by the Taliban in the north, some told the brutal treatment by the rebels: the bodies left on the streets, the girls were kidnapped to become the Taliban bride, and the young men with fighting.
Many have arrived in the new Kabul this week, after five days Taliban Blitz who had seen them win eight provincial capitals – several with barely battles.
But where there has been resistance, those who escaped describe a terrible scene.
“We saw the bodies lying near the prison …
there was a dog next to them,” said Friba, 36, a widow who escaped from Kunduz Sunday with six children when the Taliban took the city.
Like many people talking to AFP, he asked not to be fully identified for fear of retaliation.
The war has collected steps from the beginning of May, when foreign forces start the final stages of troops with finishes at the end of the month.
During their first task in power – from 1996 to September 11, 2001 attacks that encourage US-led invasion – Taliban get fame for strict interpretation of Islamic law that punishes even crime and public execution.
But they have also been accused of war crimes in this campaign, targeting government officials and security personnel – especially in areas where they have fulfilled resistance.
“Three days ago the Taliban killed a barber because they thought he worked for the government.
But he was only a barber,” said Mirwais Khan Amiri, whose car was shocked by the bullet when he escaped from Kunduz three days.
“They killed people who worked in the government even if they stopped four to five years ago.” Another Evakuee from Kunduz, Abdulmanan, told AFP the Taliban cut off his son.
“They took him …
as if he was a sheep and cut his head with a knife and throw it away,” he said.
AFP has no way to verify this report independently.
Taliban routinely denied doing cruelty and last week announced they had established the WhatsApp hotline to handle complaints.
But some humanitarian organizations, including the United Nations, said the possibility of war crimes has been carried out which needs to be investigated.
The United Nations International Organization for Migration said on Tuesday that more than 359,000 people had been moved by fighting this year.
In public parks in Central Kabul on Tuesday, hundreds of the latest arrivals camping in the open from the sun under the shade of the tree, or under the sheets stretching between them.
Sometimes a volunteer will offer food or snacks, causing chaotic scenes as refugees connected to leaflets.
A newcomer, a 25-year-old widow Marwa, fled Taloqan on Saturday because the battle went berserk for the city – fear, he would be ordered to marry a Taliban fighter.
“I heard my 16-year-old cousin had been taken forcefully by the Taliban to marry one of them,” he said.
“He was engaged, and his fiance was in France,” he added, crying.
“When there were two girls in the family, they took someone to marry her to fighters; when there were two boys they took to fight it.” Aunt MA’s widow told AFP how she found her only Azizullah’s son, 20, died on the doorstep – hit by bullet fragments from the Taliban rocket.
“After my husband died, my son was everything to me …
our guards, and a source of joy,” he said.
“My heart died at that time, it was terrible to see him dead.” Another Azizullah, who works in the Ministry of Justice in Kunduz, cannot find comfort even in relatively capital safety.
“The way they fight, regardless of others, they will come to Kabul soon,” he said.
“Where should we run since then?”
Afghanistan escaped from horror as the Taliban swept north
