Chelsea Smothers
Blog #5
February 18, 2011
11:45pm
Human rights groups are becoming increasingly concerned, due to the fact that the Taliban is the cause of more than three-fourths of all civilian casualities. They are thinking of indicting the Taliban for war crimes. Indisciminate violence is the method that allowed the Taliban to seize power in Afganistan in the first place. The Taliban played host to al-Qaida that murdered several thousand civilians in one day on American soil, and for almost a decade has been employing systemiatic cruelty against civilians and fighting an undeclared war, and without uniforms or formal command structure , against a force that is upholding a U.N. mandate for the rebuilding of the country. It ran the country as a vast cincentration camp, while in power, enslaving females and conducting a campaign of extermination against the Hazara minority. A Taliban suicide-murderer killed at least 14 civilians in the Finest Supermarket in Kabul, which was the turning point in the minds of human rights activists.
I believe it is sad that it took the Taliban committing so much crime and so many murders for the human right activists to begin to care. Better late than never, I suppose. Some time of action does need to be made, though, towards how the Taliban acts and commands. The thought of indicting the Taliban for war crimes is a move I agree with.
http://www.slate.com/id/2285025/
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