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Taliban edict to resume stoning women to death met with horror - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/28/taliban-edict-to-resume-stoning-women-to-death-met-with-horror #taliban #barbarians...

Taliban edict to resume stoning women to death met with horror

Afghan regime’s return to public stoning and flogging is because there is ‘no one to hold them accountable’ for abuses, say activists

The Guardian

My god... 😞 This is horrific.

Remember a couple of years ago when the head of the British army claimed the Taliban weren't so bad any more?

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/taliban-could-be-different-this-time-britains-army-chief-says-2021-08-18/

"It may be that this Taliban is a different Taliban to the one that people remember from the 1990s."
"We may well discover, if we give them the space, that this Taliban is of course more reasonable"

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Glyn Moody Mar 28, 2024

@FediThing no I'd forgotten that. just goes to show you can't hope for the best...