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Kunduz falls, and a bloody vengeance is executed
Justin Huggler
27 November 2001
When we reached the centre of the city, the Taliban soldiers
were still lying in the streets where they had been shot. A tall,
bearded man lay near the main roundabout with his arms and
legs twisted in his death agony. A trail of blood snaked down
his forehead, glistening in the sun.
A crowd of people gathered to watch one of the Taliban die. He
lay there, shivering despite the warmth. At least 50 men stood
and watched, but not one tried to help him. They did not have
words of comfort to offer him. He died there, under their
unforgiving stare.
They brought a heavy-set Talib into the crowd, and the Northern
Alliance soldiers beat him with their rifles, holding them by the
barrel and swinging the butts into him. He was screaming, and
blood was pouring from his mouth, but they kept on beating.
The local people joined in – many of them probably faithful
Taliban supporters until yesterday – kicking him in the head
where he lay on the ground. Eventually the soldiers dumped
him in a truck, which sped away. Nobody expected to see him
alive again.
This was the long-awaited fall of Kunduz, the Taliban's last
stronghold in the north. Some said the battered man was a
Pakistani, but otherwise there was no sign of the thousands of
Osama bin Laden's foreign volunteers that the Alliance said
were ready to fight to the death in the city. They were believed
to have fled west, to a village on the road to Mazar-i-Sharif.
People here spoke of street-to-street fighting at 7am, when the
Alliance troops led by General Mohammed Daud advanced into
town. They said the Taliban had been killed in the fighting. But
some of the bodies lying on the streets had their big toes tied
together, so they could not run. They had not died in fighting.
They had been executed. And if the Afghan Taliban were
slaughtered, the foreigners can have little hope of anything
better.
The Alliance said only a small number on each side were killed
in the final battle for Kunduz, and the five or six bodies on the
streets were all the Taliban casualties. The claim was
impossible to confirm. The Alliance dead had been removed,
but no one touched the Taliban.
As the afternoon wore on, the bodies started to smell, but still
nobody moved them. The flies, spoilt for choice, moved
between the animal carcasses hanging at the butcher's and the
bodies of the Taliban. Somebody threw a cloth over the face of
the man near the main roundabout. But the crowds hung
around all day, as if waiting for another chance to try to beat a
Talib to death.
The majority of the population of Kunduz are ethnic Pashtuns
and very few of those were on the streets yesterday. There was
not a woman to be seen. Shops remained bolted shut except
for a handful. "By the help of God, all of Kunduz is now
secured," the loudspeakers in the centre of town announced.
"Soldiers, do not loot. Keep good discipline and order." All
around the soldiers' feet lay the Taliban they had massacred.
The soldiers were busy looting. They drove past, towing their
new pick-ups behind them. Some were towing two or even
three cars behind a single labouring Russian truck.
The people told us there was little left to loot. The soldiers of
the Uzbek warlord General Rashid Dostum had come into the
town and helped themselves to the best spoils at 10pm the day
before. They had fought the Taliban until 3am, then withdrawn
before General Daud arrived. After all, General Dostum
promised the Alliance leadership he would not to enter Kunduz
before their man, General Daud.
We walked to the end of town, where the foreigners were
supposed to be holding out in the village. "Don't go any further,"
the Northern Alliance soldiers warned us. "The Taliban will
shoot you."
But where they stood, on the edge of town where the fields
began, all was quiet and peaceful. The Northern Alliance is still
claiming that Pakistani military planes have been landing at
Kunduz airport, and flying the foreigners out. One commander
said he had seen foreign fighters queuing to get on a waiting
plane.
We drove close to the airport, but there was no sign of planes.
The Americans, who control the skies of Afghanistan, insist
they are not letting any foreigners fly out of Kunduz.
The Alliance says it has the foreigners surrounded, and is
negotiating for their surrender. If the bodies on the streets of
Kunduz are anything to judge by, there are reasons to fear the
foreigners' last stand may end in a massacre.
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