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Taliban celebrate their 4th birthday:
The Taliban celebrates the fourth anniversary of their return to power in Afghanistan on Friday. Nevertheless, with the recognition of their government by Russia and hoping to see other countries following.
In Kabul. For example, they walked and brandished the flags of the “Islamic emirate of Afghanistan” which flowed in the capital for the “day of victory”, marking the resumption of the capital, on August 15, 2021, to the Republic supported by Western countries.
A ballet of helicopters dropped flowers above the city center while Taliban paraded with yellow cans representing the artisanal explosive devices used during the war against Westerners (2001-2021). Furthermore, AFP journalists found.
But the authorities canceled the military parade which had stood in fanfare in previous years on the basis of Bagram. In addition, a former nerve center of Western operations.
High managers were more followed taliban celebrate their 4th birthday by the microphone of a huge room at the Polytechnic University in Kabul to. boast their successes.
The supreme chief of the Taliban. who saw reclusive in the south of the country, did not participate in the event but welcomed, in a statement read by a spokesperson, the return of security “for the first time in decades”.
“The people. in the light of Islamic laws, were saved from corruption, oppression, appropriation, drug use, theft and looting,” said the Emir Hibatullah Akhundzada.
No word. however, about the economic difficulties encountered by the country, confronted according to the UN with one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world.
According to the World Bank. almost half of the population lives in poverty and unemployment affects almost a quarter of young people aged 15 to 29.
“The most basic rights”
In the eastern city of Jalalabad. Zabiullah, a 45 -year -old farmer taliban celebrate their 4th birthday who has no patronym, celebrated the birthday but said he hoped for more action against unemployment that pushes the “Afghans poor to emigrate”.
“We hope the government will take care of the nation,” he told AFP.
On the diplomatic level. the Taliban government is still widely excluded from the international community which criticizes its liberticidal measures, taken in the name of an ultra-rigging interpretation of Islamic law and particularly targeting women.
These are banned from schools from 12 years old, universities, sports halls, beauty institutes, parks and many jobs.
“Unlike it. the bloody Taliban emirate is not devoted to lasting peace and human dignity, but willing to destroy what remains of the most basic rights of our people”, accuses the revolutionary association of women of Afghanistan (Rawa).
In early July. Additionally, the International Criminal Court (ICC) launched arrest mandates against the Emir Akhundzada and another leader for women’s persecution, a taliban celebrate their 4th birthday crime against humanity.
But the government, which has made its international acceptance its workhorse, had already just won a victory with Russian recognition.
“Violent diet”
Kabul also maintains close relations. even without official recognition, with the Central Asian States, China and the United Arab Emirates, among others.
On the Western side, the government has reported interviews in Kabul with Norwegian, British and American officials in particular.
For Ibraheem Bahiss. from the Center for International Crisis Group (ICG), the question of women’s rights remains important in the eyes of the international community, but other challenges prevail, in particular security.
Some countries fear the presence on Afghan soil of terrorist groups, which Kabul refutes. Others are inclined to seize the migratory question to satisfy the most radical sides of their public opinions.
“Even Europe has continued to seek a dialogue because although it does not like the Taliban policies towards women-in taliban celebrate their 4th birthday which they have also indicated that they would not return-it must manage migratory flows” from Afghanistan. “explains the researcher.
The UN special rapporteurs called on Thursday not to normalize relations with the Taliban. to reject their “violent and authoritarian regime”, believing that they exercised their “without legitimacy” power.
“The international community must resist the idea that the current situation under the Taliban regime is inevitable. irreversible,” argued these independent experts.
Taliban celebrate their 4th birthday
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