Kandahar (Afghanistan) (AP) Poor Afghans living in a long-abandoned military compound in the southern city of Kandahar say they are devastated by the Taliban’s order to evacuate them from their homes. Several hundred people staged a rally against the order on Monday, saying they had nowhere else to go and that they had paid former Afghan soldiers under the table for land years ago.
After the rally, the Taliban entered the compound and forced several protesters to leave. His current whereabouts are not known. Rabia, an Afghan widow by a name, says she lives with her five children in a two-room mud house on the premises. She told the Associated Press that she would stay there until the Taliban gave her another place to live.
The Taliban want me to leave everything I’ve built and bought, where will I go with my kids? he said. The Taliban have ordered more than 2,500 families in the compound to leave their homes and all their belongings so that Taliban fighters can enter.
Imran, another resident of the complex, said that the families have got the deadline to leave them with only clothes on our backs at the earliest. Fazil Mohamed, one of the first Afghans to settle in the compound, said there was no money to go anywhere else. I can’t even buy a tent to go in now. He said he was happy when the Taliban took power, citing the corruption of the previous government, but now he is disappointed. The compound was abandoned in 2001 after a US-led offensive to oust the Taliban, when Afghan soldiers living there moved into facilities at Kandahar airport. Over the years, the complex grew as displaced Afghans settled there, bought pieces of land and built homes.
Kandahar’s Taliban media chief Rahmatullah Naraywal said on Wednesday that Afghan families could continue to live in the compound until the matter is reviewed by the Taliban leadership. However, he said he was not allowed to hold rallies and that his protest was illegal. He said the Taliban was ready to pay him, but could not give him an alternative place to live. (AP).
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