Taliban Public Executions in Ghazni: Two Men Slain in Stadium

Afghanistan’s Ghazni At a stadium in southeast Afghanistan on Thursday, the Taliban executed two men in public while thousands of people witnessed the relatives of the victims slay the guilty guys.

According to a court announcement, the Taliban Supreme Court had decided that the two were accountable for the stabbing murders of two victims in different attacks.

The court announcement from the Taliban’s Supreme Court stated that the two were found guilty of stabbing two individuals to death in two different attacks.

In addition, the statement claimed that Hibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme head of the Taliban, and three lesser courts had ordered the deaths as payback for their alleged misdeeds.

Thursday saw a crush of people clamoring to enter the stadium in Ghazni’s Ali Lala neighborhood as religious leaders begged the victims’ families to pardon the prisoners, but they refused.

According to Ghazni police spokesman Abu Abu Khalid Sarhadi, the two individuals were executed by relatives of the victims. What kind of guns they utilized was not specified by him.

Fifteen rounds were fired, with eight going through one man and seven through the other. Then, ambulances removed their bodies.

The deaths marked the third and fourth executions in public since the Taliban took over in 2021, after the tumultuous withdrawal of NATO and American forces from Afghanistan.

Since assuming power, the Taliban have carried out public executions, lashings, and stonings; the UN has sharply denounced these practices and urged the government to put an end to them.

In the late 1990s, when the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, they frequently executed, flogged, and stoned people in public.