Taliban kill at least 3 protesters who tried to remove regime’s flag

Even the inocent juveniles are not spared

By Edward Era Barbacena

Taliban fighters killed at least three people Wednesday as they fired at protesters who tried to replace the Islamist regime’s flag with the national one of Afghanistan, according to reports.

In what is believed to be one of the first protests since the ousted group took back control of the country Sunday, “hundreds if not thousands” of locals took to the streets of Jalalabad on Wednesday, Al Jazeera said.

A man carries a bloodied child, as a woman lays
wounded on the street after Taliban fighters use
guns fire, whips, sticks and sharp objects to
maintain crowd control over thousands of Afghans
 who continue to wait outside the Kabul Airport

Many were seen waving the red, black and green national flag — with some climbing a flag pole in the city’s central square to take down the Taliban’s white flag in a stunning expression of defiance.

But Taliban enforcers started firing in the air — with some shots aimed at the crowds, according to footage on social media and local reports.

Others also attacked the crowds with batons while a military-style vehicle was seen racing dangerously through the crowds.

“Nobody is going to harm you, nobody is going to knock on your doors,” he had said, offering an amnesty for anyone who had earlier worked with the US in helping to overthrow the group.

Mujahid even claimed that women would be allowed to work and study and “will be very active in society but within the framework of Islam,” a stark contrast to the previous oppression, despite remaining vague.

Even since then, however, the Taliban have been seen randomly attacking people — leaving women and children bloodied — and even blamed for shooting dead a woman who refused to wear a burqa.

Alleged criminals have also been seen paraded through the streets with blackened faces and nooses around their necks, seemingly in a return to the draconian punishments that included public executions and mutilations.