Taliban had sex with corpses as they hunted for sex slaves, claims ex-Afghan cop
A former female police officer recently claimed that the Taliban was having sex with dead bodies after reports claimed that they were on a door-to-door manhunt seeking out those who worked for the US or its allied forces with the intention of punishing them by making them slaves.
The terrified woman, who fled to India as the Taliban took control of war-torn Afghanistan following the withdrawal of American troops from the land by President Joe Biden, was identified only as Muskan. She told the outlet News18 that radical Islamic militants "don't care whether the person is dead or alive" as the members of the Taliban either picked up women from families or shot them. She also claimed that they even rape corpses or performed necrophilia. "When we were there, we received numerous warnings," Muskan told the outlet. "If you go to work, you are under threat, your family is under threat. After one warning, they would stop giving any warning. They rape dead bodies too. They don't care whether the person is dead or alive. Can you imagine this?"
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Muskan's claims paint a horrifying picture of what the new Taliban regime looks like, which directly contradicts what the group's spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said at a press conference in Kabul last week. On being questioned by the reporters, the Taliban promised to protect women’s rights and press freedom in their newly reoccupied nation, in an effort to rebrand their image in the world's eyes. “We are going to allow women to work and study. We have got frameworks, of course. Women are going to be very active in the society but within the framework of Islam,” he said, without actually laying down the so-called "frameworks."
When the militant group ruled Afghanistan back in the '90s, women and girls were some of the most at-risk people under the Taliban regime, with them being brutalized and oppressed and rulebreakers being penalized with cruel tortures and public executions. While Mujahid said that “there will be no discrimination against women” adding that “they are going to work shoulder to shoulder with us," it seems like the Taliban are falling back on their old ways of forcing marriages and demanding lists of women and girls. A number of videos have emerged on Twitter of Afghan women speaking out anonymously about the atrocities that they are going through under the new regime and urging the international community for help.
"As an Afghan woman I am scared to go out because Taliban is everywhere. I’m pleading with the international community not to betray Afghan women again. Women are human beings. Don’t let our human rights be violated.” @AlinejadMasih #afghanistanwomen pic.twitter.com/E7JkNLrzE2
— Yalda Hakim (@BBCYaldaHakim) August 22, 2021
Qhanimat
Unmarried and widowed women aged 12 to 45 are typically viewed by Taliban warlords as "qhanimat", which means spoils of war to be divided amongst their fighters. Reports are coming in of the militant group targeting children as young as 12 as they seek out sex slaves after conquering Afghanistan. After they stormed across the country and took over the capital, Kabul, at breakneck speed, horrifying tales of their commanders demanding refugees turn over women and girls to become their "wives" and be raped have emerged.
The Taliban are also reportedly murdering civilians and captured soldiers. The reports were denied by Taliban officials as the group has claimed that they will not be enforcing sexual slavery, like last time, as such actions are against the rules of Islam. Last month, the Taliban officials had published a decree that ordered local leaders to hand over lists of young girls and widows under 45.
