Taliban must have forgotten to mention they killed 13 ethnic Hazara people

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Nobody knows if it was an oversight or if the Taliban simply forgot to mention that back in August, they murdered 13 ethnic Hazara innocents including a teenage girl, according to Amnesty International.

The group said they discovered evidence the people were massacred in Daykundi province in August. But knowing how the Taliban is turning over a new IED leaf, it's likely they simply forgot to mention it and are probably really sorry things got out of hand.

Nine of the victims were former government soldiers who had surrendered to the Taliban, who may have thought their hands in the air was a elusive karate move so they shot them. Maybe, however, like Amnesty International believes, it was a blatant war crime.

Of course, the kinder, gentler Taliban said that this was only one part of the story and we aren't hearing the whole deal. It's rumored that the teenage girl didn't have her ankles and face covered, so under Taliban tradition, they shot her dead because her lack of modesty was irreligious and was an insult to Islam. Whatever the case, we can rest assured the Biden administration will discuss it with the Taliban leadership.

The Hazara community is Afghanistan's third largest ethnic group. They mainly practice Shia Islam and have faced long-term discrimination and persecution in predominantly Sunni Afghanistan and Pakistan because they have a different religious belief. But at least both groups can agree that Christians and Jews are derived from apes and pigs and that's a starting point for future discussions. 

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Since the softer, gentler better hygienic Taliban has taken power, this is the second such incident in which they've been accused of killing Hazaras.

In this latest massacre, two of the dead were civilians; the girl was only 17-years-old and was shot when the Taliban opened fire at a group of soldier's families as they ran for their lives.

"These cold-blooded executions are further proof that the Taliban are committing the same horrific abuses they were notorious for during their previous rule of Afghanistan," said Agnès Callamard, secretary-general of Amnesty International. 

Who would have thought that after President Biden handed them the country?

"The Taliban say they are not targeting former employees of the previous government, but these killings contradict such claims," she said, like totally surprised.

The Taliban's interior ministry spokes terrorist, Qari Saeed Khosti told the BBC: "This report is one sided and we call on all international organizations to come and conduct a proper investigation in the field.

"This is not an acceptable conclusion and is free of transparency. If you do not believe me, I will kill you! I will kill you! Bastard man."

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