The government of Afghanistan assures that it has trained about a thousand officers
Equipped with helmets and riot shields and covered from head to toe in black veils, a group of women pose in an official video under the banner of the Taliban, which on Tuesday announced the training of about 1,000 police officers in Afghanistan. Taliban government deputy spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi explained that 100 agents have been recruited in the capital alone.
An official video released by the fundamentalists shows a dozen women, mostly outfitted with riot shields, decorated with the word Police in yellow, and black helmets, the same color as hijabs exposing only their eyes. “We are standing by 24 hours a day to prevent demonstrations,” said Imran, an official of the Public Order Directorate.
Regularly and despite the fundamentalists’ veto, who will not allow demonstrations against them, groups of women in various parts of the country have protested the loss of their labor and education rights. Equally consistent has been the repression of the Taliban, accused of torture and ill-treatment of Afghan women for participating in demonstrations to demand their rights, the international organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) denounced on Oct. 20.
The last of these demonstrations took place last Monday in a park in Kabul, and organizers say it was violently dispersed by the Taliban, arguing that they did not have the required permission to organize it.
Despite promises that they had changed, the Taliban continued to behave as they did between 1996 and 2001, when, based on a rigid interpretation of Islam and its strict social code known as pastunwali, it banned women from attending schools. and imprisoned women. At home.
Source: La Verdad
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