Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, in his first statement since fleeing the country, said he had left the country to avoid an assassination by the Taliban and vowed to return.
In a videotaped statement posted to his Facebook page from the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday evening, Mr Ghani said that, despite an agreement that the Taliban would not enter the city of Kabul, his guards warned him on Sunday afternoon that the rebels would not enter the city. will arrive in . Went. Walls of Rashtrapati Bhavan in central Kabul.
“If I lived in Afghanistan,” he said, “the people of Afghanistan would see the president hanged once again.”
His statement referred to the assassination of Afghan President Mohammad Najibullah, who was executed and executed in a public square after the Taliban captured the capital in 1996.