VOA News
Ayaz Gul
May 8, 2016
ISLAMABAD—Authorities in Afghanistan hanged six men on death row who were convicted of “grave crimes against civilians and public security.”
Taliban officials swiftly confirmed those executed belonged to the insurgent group and vowed to “take immediate, bloody revenge.”
The executions of the terrorists took place in a Kabul prison Sunday on the orders of President Ashraf Ghani, his office confirmed to VOA.
The move came after last month’s complex suicide bombing in the Afghan capital that killed nearly 70 people and wounded hundreds more. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the deadly assault.
The attack sparked widespread domestic outrage and international condemnation.
Ghani vowed to intensify his military response to the insurgency and to endorse execution orders of convicted militants.
International rights group Amnesty International had urged the Afghan leader not to endorse the execution orders, saying “hastily seeking retribution for the horrific” Kabul attack will neither bring the victims the justice they deserve nor Afghanistan the security it needs.
The Taliban has claimed there are Afghan security forces and “foreign nationals” in its custody.
The group warned in a statement last week the detainees would also face the same fate if Ghani enforced executions of its prisoners and threatened to target those who passed the death sentences.
The number of prisoners in Taliban custody is unclear. But in recent months Afghan forces, with the help of U.S-led coalition partners, have raided and freed hundreds of people from illegal detention centers the insurgency has set up in Afghanistan.
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The puppet givern of Afghanistan, at the behest of its master, is conducting unwarranted executions of the local citizens.
This foreign-installed government body has no jurisdictional authority to arbitrary judge the the guilt or innocence of the regular citizens of Afghanistan- especially in light of Anglo/US military heinous crimes that they have already commited all over Afghanistan.
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