{"id":28365,"date":"2012-11-21T15:15:57","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T13:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=28365"},"modified":"2012-11-21T15:15:57","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T13:15:57","slug":"afghanistan-warterrorist-taliban-has-threatened-nato-and-afghan-government-with-reprisals-asia-news-28365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/afghanistan-warterrorist-taliban-has-threatened-nato-and-afghan-government-with-reprisals-asia-news-28365\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan War:Terrorist Taliban has threatened NATO and Afghan government with reprisals \/ Asia News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Taliban warn of reprisals if Kabul Goverment executes Taliban militants.<\/h1>\n

Kabul hanged eight criminals on Tuesday and officials said more executions were expected after President Hamid Karzai signed death warrants for a total of 16 prisoners.<\/p>\n

The Taliban, who are waging an insurgency against Karzai\u2019s government and 100,000 Nato troops, said they had \u201ccredible reports\u201d that some Taliban members on death row were scheduled for execution.<\/p>\n

If the \u201cprisoners of war\u201d were executed there would be \u201cheavy repercussions for lawmakers, courts and other related circles of the Kabul administration\u201d, the Islamists said in a statement on their website.<\/p>\n

It urged the United Nations (UN), the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the Red Cross and international rights groups to prevent the executions.<\/p>\n

The Taliban, ousted from power by a US-led invasion in 2001, were notorious for executing people in public for \u201ccrimes\u201d including adultery. The executions were often carried out at half-time during games in the main football stadium in Kabul.<\/p>\n

The European Union and international rights groups on Wednesday condemned Afghanistan\u2019s execution of the first eight prisoners and urged Kabul to drop plans to hang any more.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Afghan government should end its sudden surge of executions and institute a moratorium on further executions,\u201d Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe weakness of the Afghan legal system and the routine failure of courts to meet international fair trial standards make Afghanistan\u2019s use of the death penalty especially troubling,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

Amnesty International said \u201cthe sheer number of people who could be killed by the state is a particularly shocking use of what is the ultimate cruel and inhuman form of punishment\u201d.<\/p>\n

The EU mission in Afghanistan called on the government to commute all death sentences and to reintroduce a moratorium on executions as a first step towards abolishing capital punishment.<\/p>\n\n

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