KABUL: The flag protesters rose to several Afghan cities on Thursday and several people were killed when Taliban fighters opened fire on the crowd, said a witness, in the first popular opposition with militants since they seized the capital.
“Our flag our identity,” crowd of men and some women waving black, red and green national flag shouting in Kabul, video clips posted on social media showing.
A woman walks with a flag wrapped around her shoulder.
Afghanistan celebrates 1919 independence from England control on August 19.
Taliban spokesman not immediately available to comment.
In Asadabad, the capital of Kunar Province, several people were killed during the general meeting but it was not clear whether the victim was produced from the shooting or from Stampede triggered, the Witness said Mohammed Salim.
“Hundreds of people come out on the streets,” said Salim.
“At first I was scared and didn’t want to leave but when I saw one of my neighbors joining me to take the flag that I had at home.” “Some people were killed and injured in storming and shooting by the Taliban.” The protesters also went down to the streets of East City Jalalabad and the Provincial District of Paktia.
On Wednesday, Taliban fighters opened fire on waved protesters on the Jalalabad flag, killing three, witnesses and the media reported.
In some places, the protesters tore the white Taliban flag, according to the media.
The media reported similar scenes in Asadaabad and the other eastern city, Khost, on Wednesday.
Amrullah Saleh’s first vice-president, who tried to gossipize the opposition to the Taliban, expressed support for the protest.
“They salute the national flag and thus means the dignity of the nation,” he said on Twitter.
Saleh said on Tuesday he was in Afghanistan and “legitimate caregivers” after President Ashraf Ghani fled when the Taliban took Kabul on Sunday.
Calls for the end of the airport crowd of crackdown over protests will cause new doubts about the Taliban guarantee that they have changed since the government of 1996-2001 when they severely limited women, held an ancient Buddha statue.
They now say they want peace within the framework of Islamic law.
While Kabul is generally calm because Taliban troops enter on Sundays, the airport has been in chaos when people rushed abroad.
Twelve people were killed in and around the airport since then, a Taliban official said.
Death was caused by gunshots or with stampedes, Taliban officials said.
He urged people who do not have legal rights to travel home.
“We don’t want to hurt anyone at the airport,” Taliban officials, who refused to be identified.
On Wednesday, the witnesses said the Taliban Gunmen prevented people from entering the airport complex.
A Taliban official said the commander and soldier had opened fire on the air to disperse the crowd.
The situation was quieter on Thursday, said Saksises.
The United States and other Western powers urge with their citizens’ evacuations and some of their Afghan staff from the capital of the capital, from where around 8,000 people have been flown since Sunday, a Western security official said.
Under the pact negotiated last year by former President Donald Trump Administration, the United States agreed to withdraw his troops in exchange for Taliban guarantee they would not allow Afghanistan to be used to launch a terrorist attack.
The Taliban also agreed not to attack foreign troops when they left.
US President Joe Biden said US troops would remain until the evacuation of Americans was finished, even if that meant staying past the US August deadline for withdrawal.