Taliban Hangs Four Bodies in Public Square in Western Afghanistan: Witnesses

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The Taliban hung four dead bodies in a public square in western Afghanistan, according to local witnesses, in a sign that the group is returning to some of its harsh punishments of the past.

Several residents of Herat, identified as Mohammad Nazir and Wazir Ahmad, said they saw the Taliban displaying the bodies in the cityโ€™s public square. Ahmad told The Associated Press that three of the bodies were then moved to other parts of the city for public display.

โ€œWhen I stepped forward, I saw they had brought a body in a pickup truck, then they hung it up on a crane,โ€ Nazir told Reuters.

An Associated Press video showed crowds gathering around the crane and peering up at one of the bodies as some men chanted.

โ€œThe aim of this action is to alert all criminals that they are not safe,โ€ an alleged Taliban member told the AP in the square. The unidentified member said that the bodies belonged to kidnappers.

Ziaulhaq Jalali, a Taliban district police chief in Herat, told Al Jazeera that the groupโ€™s members rescued a father and son who were abducted by four kidnappers. A Taliban member and a civilian were injured by the alleged kidnappers in a shootout, Jalali said.

Since taking over Afghanistan last month after U.S. troops were pulled out, some high-ranking members of the Taliban, designated by several U.S. intelligence agencies as a terrorist group, said they have changed their ways since the Taliban previously ruled the country between 1996 and 2001.

However, Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, who now heads the so-called Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, suggested that public executions and other strict punishments, including hand amputations, will be meted out.

โ€œEveryone criticized us for the punishments in the stadium, but we have never said anything about their laws and their punishments,โ€ Turabi told AP last week. โ€œNo one will tell us what our laws should be. We will follow Islam and we will make our laws on the Quran.โ€

By Jack Phillips

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