Kunduz - Afghanistan: Revenge killings by Northern Alliance

People look at the body of a Taliban soldier in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 26 2001. According to residents, the soldiers had been wounded and captured in fighting Sunday, then executed Monday. Each man's big toes had been tied together to keep him from running before he was shot. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)
 

People look at the dead body of a Taliban soldier in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 26, 2001. According to residents, the soldiers had been wounded and captured in fighting Sunday, then executed Monday. Each man's big toes had been tied together to keep him from running before he was shot. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)
 

People look at the dead body of a Taliban soldier in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, Monday Nov. 26 2001. According to residents, the soldiers had been wounded and captured in fighting Sunday, then executed Monday. Each man's big toes had been tied together to keep him from running before he was shot. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)
 

People look at the dead body of a Taliban soldier in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, Monday Nov. 26 2001. According to residents, the soldiers had been wounded and captured in fighting Sunday, then executed Monday. Each man's big toes had been tied together to keep him from running before he was shot. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)
 

Northern alliance soldiers beat and drag a Taliban soldier in the town of Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, Monday Nov. 26, 2001. The fighter was later taken away by truck and his fate is unknown. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)
 

Northern alliance soldiers drag a Taliban fighter in the town of Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, Monday Nov. 26 2001. The fighter was later taken away and his fate is unknown. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)
 

Northern alliance soldiers drag a Taliban fighter in the town of Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, Monday Nov. 26 2001. The fighter was later taken away by truck and his fate is unknown. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)
 

Revenge killings reported in Kunduz (Source : BBC)
( http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1678000/1678723.stm )
Violent acts of revenge have reportedly been perpetrated against Taleban fighters in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, which the Northern Alliance took on Monday.After the capture of the city, an alliance commander, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, said the rights of some 6,000 Taleban fighters who had surrendered would be respected.

But there have been reports of Taleban prisoners being beaten and shot dead in the marketplace.Fly-covered bodies of Taleban lay strewn in the city's streets, some with their big toes tied together as proof that they had no chance of escaping brutal death. Residents walked by the bodies and stared, but nobody touched or removed them.

Breach of agreement

There was also looting. Northern Alliance soldiers drove through the city, towing pick-up trucks they said had belonged to Taleban.Earlier, Northern Alliance soldiers had gone from house to house, searching for hiding Taleban fighters.
Those who surrendered were taken away in trucks, their hands tied behind their backs.

If the Taleban fighters were indeed beaten and shot dead, as residents have testified, this would be a breach of an agreement reached with the Taleban in Kunduz, according to which Afghan Taleban fighters would be given amnesty.
Foreign fighters, including Pakistanis, Chechens and Arabs were to be imprisoned and tried.

Fate of foreigners

But the foreigners have suffered brutal treatment at the hands of Northern Alliance forces during their takeover of other Afghan cities in recent weeks, and there is concern that they will meet a fate worse than the Afghans they fought with. Former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani said that Northern Alliance troops would not "injure or harass" the foreign fighters in Kunduz.

"Although they have committed some war crimes in Afghanistan, they come under the general amnesty that we have declared and they will be pardoned if they put their guns down," Mr Rabbani said. He added that those captured could be handed over to the United Nations.

Source : BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/English/world/south_asia/newsid_1678000/1678723.stm

 

A Child injured by Northern Alliance
A father comforts his injured son, who was wounded during fighting, as they make their way to the hospital in the town of Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 26 2001. Northern alliance troops took control of the town Monday. Kunduz province was the last Taliban stronghold in northern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Three Taliban suspects are detained by northern alliance soldiers in camouflage in the town of Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 26 2001. Anti-Taliban forces laid savage claim to the captured city on Monday after a two-week siege, beating captured Taliban in the streets and shooting wounded prisoners in the town's

Identity pictures of detainees are scattered on the ground of a Kunduz, Afghanistan jail, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2001, one day after the city fell from Taliban control to the hands of northern alliance forces. All prisoners detained in the jail were released by northern alliance forces. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)marketplace. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

A Taliban suspect is detained by northern alliance forces after they took over the Afghan city of Kunduz Monday Nov. 26, 2001. After the two week siege of the Taliban's last northern bastion, the alliance claimed Sunday afternoon to have control of the city. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

FILE--A Taliban suspect is detained by northern alliance forces after they took over the Afghan city of Kunduz in this Nov. 26, 2001, photo. After the two week siege of the Taliban's last northern bastion Kunduz, the alliance had control of the city. Over the past month, surrenders of cities and towns by the retreating Taliban have been marked by bitter infighting, unexplained delays and broken promises. Now Kandahar, the militia's home base and last bastion, could be a case in point. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)