The Taliban fired into the air on Saturday in Kabul to disperse a demonstration by women demanding the right to work and education, nearly a year after the Islamists came to power in Afghanistan, journalists from the AFP.
About 40 women chanting '
Bread, work and freedom
' marched in front of the Ministry of Education before a group of Taliban fighters dispersed them with gunfire in the air, some 5 minutes after the start of the march .
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The demonstrators carried a banner that read: "
August 15 is a black day
", in reference to the date of the capture of Kabul in 2021 by the Taliban.
“
Justice, justice.
We are fed up with ignorance
,” they chanted before being violently dispersed.
Taliban in military uniform and armed with assault rifles blocked a crossroads in front of the demonstrators and began shooting in the air for long seconds.
One of them simulated a shot by aiming at the demonstrators, noted an AFP journalist.
Some then took refuge in nearby shops where they were chased and beaten with rifle butts.