Both the Taliban and the Resistance Front claim that Raghi resistance fighters were killed in the clashes.
KUNDUZ, April 10 - Sangar, Jamshid Badakhshi. However, the commander of a Resistance Front group called the Pamir Tigers claims that his soldiers were killed after they surrendered to the Taliban, and this was a war crime.
Mawlawi Amanuddin, commander of the Taliban Air Force, told the local Pamir TV channel that resistance fighters attacked the Taliban base at 12 midnight yesterday, injuring three Taliban.
“Last night at 3 o'clock, the Taliban forces attacked the shelter of the Resistance Front in the Kuhistan region, as a result of which nine resistance fighters were killed, one captured,” Pamir TV quoted the Taliban as saying.
The Taliban claim there have been no casualties in recent clashes in Raghi. This was the group's first encounter with the forces of the Resistance Front in Badakhshan.
In turn, the National Resistance Front officially announced that 16 Taliban and 7 resistance guerrillas were killed in the battle in the Siyakuh area of the Kuhistan region.
Earlier, Sangar's source said that as a result of the attack by the Pamir Tigers on the Taliban center in Kuhistan, four were killed, five were wounded and 13 Taliban were taken, prisoner. The latter were immediately released.
Both the Taliban and the National Resistance Front talk about those who died during the fighting. However, Sangar's sources, including eyewitnesses to the incident and the commander of the Pamir Tigers group, Rustam Kukhestani, who spoke with his fighters during the battle, speak of the execution of their fighters after the surrender.
An eyewitness to the incident said that he was not far from the place where the young resisters were shot.
“Near this place is the Afghan Besim antenna. I was there, hiding and watching. The Taliban swore by the Koran that they would not be touched. The resistance fighters surrendered. At the first moment, three of them were shot at the same place, and just below that place, two more were killed. Another was killed on the way, and the last one was shot while trying to escape. Only one person was not killed by the Taliban,” he said.
Meanwhile, a Pamir Tiger fighter informed Sangar that Abdulgafur, the man the Taliban had left alive, was on the phone with Mawlawi Najib during the fight, who swore on the Koran that if they surrendered they would not be harmed, but they were all killed, back in the month of Ramadan.
“Abdulgafur called our commander Rustam Kukhestani and said that Mavlavi Najib swears on the Koran that he will not touch us, what do you order? He was ordered not to think about surrendering at all, because the Taliban have nothing sacred and they will kill them. Why this man surrendered is a mystery to us,” he said.
Similarly, the question remains unclear who gave the order to kill 7 young resistance fighters: Mavlavi Najib or Mavlavi Amanuddin?
According to Sangar, all those killed were close relatives and were residents of the villages of Khnvr and Akhmadr in the Ragistan district.
Mavlavi Amanuddin arrived in Ragi from Mazar Sharif by helicopter when the fighting ended. He did not allow people to read the Janazah prayers of the resistance fighters and buried them two by two in one grave, in the same place where they were shot. And the witness told Sangar that when the young people were put in the grave, their heads themselves turned towards the qibla, from which people were amazed.
Mawlawi Amanuddin told the Taliban, who gathered in the center of the Kuhistan district, that anyone who resists should be shot without trial or investigation.
Badakhshan is a Taliban stronghold, and the latest clashes are the first showdown between the National Resistance Front and the Taliban. Considering that Badakhshan is home to a large number of Taliban, and the province is considered Tajik and anti-Taliban, future important events in northern Afghanistan will be associated with this province. This may be one of the reasons why the Tajik Taliban killed Tajik resistance fighters without trial or investigation.
*The organization is under UN sanctions for terrorist activities.
