Taliban set woman on fire for bad cooking: Report
- 20 Aug 2021
Gulf Today Report
A shocking incident has come to light in Afghanistan after the Taliban took over the country.
A woman was set on fire for bad cooking by the Taliban, according to a Sky News report.
Najla Ayoubi, Chief of Coalition & Global Programmes at Every Woman Treaty, told media that several women are fleeing the country from Taliban and that she had to leave as well for her vociferous campaign on women’s rights in the country.
Ayoubi campaigns for violence against women.
Media reports said that though the Taliban are constantly speaking for women's rights, there is hardly any change in their stance.
Sky News reported reports of "bad behaviour and violence against women."
Ayoubi said one woman was accused of bad cooking by the Taliban and that they set her on fire in the north of the country.
It was also learnt that the Taliban are forcing people to cook for them, showing aggression.
Ayoubi added that the Taliban are forcing some families to marry their young daughters to the cadres.
The UNHCR said on Friday that most Afghans are unable to leave their homeland and that those who may be in danger "have no clear way out."
Spokesperson Shabia Mantoo urged neighbouring countries to keep their borders open in light to allow people to seek asylum in light of what she called the "evolving crisis."
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"UNHCR remains concerned about the risk of human rights violations against civilians in this evolving context, including women and girls," she told media.
Many Afghans fear a return to the Taliban’s harsh rule in the late 1990s, when the group largely confined women to their homes, banned television and music, chopped off the hands of suspected thieves and held public executions.
Disturbing footage has been circulating on social media of a family passing a toddler through the crowd at the Kabul airport over the wall and into the arms of a US soldier.
The desperate measures by Afghans have shocked the world with western nations engaging in dialogues on the future of the country.
The harrowing developments come as thousands of Afghans continue their attempts to flee the country, with reports suggesting that the Taliban is making it difficult for people to reach the airport.
British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said on Thursday that Britain couldn’t evacuate unaccompanied children from Afghanistan in response to a question about another video clip showing a child being thrown over a wall at Kabul airport for British soldiers to take them.
A Parachute Regiment officer said that some desperate mothers were sick of Taliban.
They threw the babies at us… some of the babies fell on the barbed wire. Most of us were crying at the night over the incident.
Earlier, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Thursday that about 400 Afghans working with the European Union and his family have been evacuated to Europe, and another 300 people are still trying to reach Kabul Airport.
It is "our moral responsibility" to save as many Afghans working in the EU office in Afghanistan as possible, but not everyone can leave.
The United Nations announced that it has started evacuating some of its personnel from Afghanistan because hundreds of Afghan asylum seekers tried to flee their country after falling into the hands of the Taliban.
United Nations spokesperson Stefan Dujarrik said about 100 United Nations staff will be evacuated from Kabul to Almaty in Kazakhstan. Afghanistan came under the grip of Taliban as government collapsed, President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, and thousands of desperate people crowded into Kabul airport trying to escape amid the chaos.
The sudden victory of the militants sparked a state of panic in the capital's airport.
