Fw: Anti-Taliban forces slaughter non-Afghan fighters in Kandahar

["Nello Margiotta" <animarg@tin.it>]

 Wednesday, December 12, 2001
 Karachi Dawn

 ANTI-TALIBAN TRIBAL FORCES HAVE LAUNCHED A CAMPAIGN
 TO KILL NON-AFGHAN FIGHTERS IN KANDAHAR AND OTHER PARTS
 OF SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN.


 Reports said that over 400 non-Afghan Taliban fighters, mainly Arabs, had
 been trapped and massacred by tribal militias in and around Kandahar since
 the Taliban surrendered Kandahar, Hilmand and Zabul.

 "A large number of dead bodies of Arab Taliban were found in various parts
 of Kandahar region," travellers reaching here from different parts of
 southern Afghanistan said. Tribal forces loyal to different warlords had
 killed them, they added.

 "No tribal group is sparing the Arab Taliban," Amanullah, one of the
 witnesses, told newsmen near the border. People living in areas close to
the
 Kandahar Airport had buried bodies of 21 Arab fighters the other day, he
 said, adding that they had been killed by the forces loyal to the governor
 of Kandahar.

 Sources said that other tribal groups were also involved in the killing of
 non-Afghan Taliban. An uneasy calm prevailed in Kandahar city.

 Intense fighting was reported for control of Lashkar Gah, capital of
Hilmand.

 In Spin Boldak, militiamen loyal to Wakil Abdul Samad and Akhtar Jan asked
 local people to surrender their weapons. They launched a campaign to
 deweaponize the area to restore peace. They warned that if people did not
 comply with the directive, they would raid their homes for recovery of arms
 and ammunition.

 AFP adds: Dozens of Taliban who surrendered to the Northern Alliance died
 while being transported to a prison in sealed shipping containers, the New
 York Times reported on Tuesday.

 The prisoners, many of them foreign fighters, died during the two to
 three-day journey from Kunduz to Shibarghan, Afghanistan, witnesses in
 Shibarghan told the daily.

 On Saturday, Northern Alliance commander Colonel General Jurabek said 43
 prisoners had died from injuries or asphyxiation in six containers, while
 three others died from wounds after their arrival in Shibarghan.

 Several Pakistani prisoners, however, told the daily that many more people
 had died in the containers. One prisoner said all but seven people died
from
 lack of air in his container, estimating the number dead at more than 100.

 Another prisoner said 13 people died in his container and that the
survivors
 had taken turns at breathing through a hole in the metal wall.

 A local truck driver who spoke through acquaintances, said he saw soldiers
 unloading many bodies from a container outside the city.

 The prisoners came from Kunduz, in northern Afghanistan, where a bloody
 uprising of captured Taliban fighters last month took US-led Afghan forces
 two weeks to put down, causing the death of some 230 prisoners and one US
 Central Intelligence Agency officer - the first US combat casualty of the
 Afghan campaign.

 The DAWN Group of Newspapers, 2001




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