08/17/2021 8:49 AM
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Updated 08/17/2021 8:49 AM
The Taliban announced on Tuesday a
"general amnesty" for all state officials
, urging them to return to normal work, two days after taking power in Afghanistan.
"A general amnesty was decreed for all (...) therefore they must resume their daily lives with total confidence," the Taliban announced in a statement.
Since they entered Kabul on Sunday, after a very rapid offensive that in just 10 days made them control almost the entire country and caused the flight of President Ashraf Ghani, the Taliban have multiplied
gestures that want to be reassuring
.
A Taliban on a Kabul street after the fall of the Afghan capital.
Photo: AFP
This Tuesday,
life slowly resumed in Kabul
, many stores reopened, traffic was heavy again and there were people on the streets.
The Taliban organize the movement in the streets and established checkpoints.
But the inhabitants of the capital are afraid, especially the women, who for the most part do not risk going out on the streets.
Between 1996 and 2001, when they were in power, the Taliban
imposed a rigorous vision of Islamic law
.
Women could neither work nor study.
Older people remember the group's ultra-conservative Islamic vision, which imposed restrictions and punishments on women, including
stoning, amputations and executions
, until they were toppled by a US-led invasion.
Although there have been no reports of major abuses in the capital Kabul, which fell this week, the Taliban are now patrolling its streets, and many Afghans remain in their homes after the rebels released thousands of prisoners.
Many women have expressed fears that the two-decade-long Western experiment to turn Afghanistan into a democracy and give them rights will
not survive the return of the Taliban
to power.
Taliban leader Enamullah Samangani's comments, however,
were vague
as the movement continues in negotiations with political leaders of the toppled government pending an announcement of a handover agreement.
"The Islamic Emirate does not want women to be victims," Samangani said, using the Taliban's name for Afghanistan.
"They should be in the governance structure
according to Islamic law,
" he added, the BBC reported.
With information from the AFP agency and Télam
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