This isn’t the first time that Taliban’s leader Mullah Omar has released a statement asking his militant group to stop attacking civilians. Unfortunately, these statements contradict reality. Back at the onset of spring, he issued a similar statement asking for his terrorist group to avoid civilian casualties. While the entire world anxiously waited to witness him and his followers follow through on these promises, their hope for safety was bitterly crushed with more suicide attacks on Afghan civilians.
Through his statement, he reveals his militants’ financial and military failures. By addressing the creation of the local and government-backed police force in his statement, he acknowledges that these institutions have added another layer of complication for Taliban terrorist operations. He also asks people to support the Taliban insurgency in the fight against Afghan and international security forces. The change in his tone is due to the fact that they have lost support among Afghans throughout the country. We witnessed local populations standing up against the Taliban in Helmand, Kandahar, Nangarhar and Ghazni provinces, where Taliban fighters were beaten to death by local residents.
Unfortunately Mullah Omar did not forget the usual preaching of his violent ideology, which from the group’s inception has been to give out unjustified death sentences for every action against them. He once again warned Afghans to face their judgment, if caught helping the Afghan government. In the past ten years, Afghanistan has made remarkable progress in the field of education. Afghans are more aware of their choices today than they were ten years ago. This phenomenon within the Afghan society has frightened the Taliban and their leaders; therefore, they chose to change their messaging by making false promises. They promised that they will investigate the massacre at the Kabul bank, but unfortunately, they never responded to the families of the victims and the Afghan people with the result of their investigation.
Just a day after his statement, a suicide attack killed seven and wounded 15 innocent civilians in Baghlan province, killing innocent Afghan Muslims who were coming out of the mosque after the Eid prayers. How does Mullah Omar justify the murder of 8 civilians killed today in Badghis province by Taliban’s bomb?
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MAJ Nevers,
DET – U.S. Central Command
U.S. Central Command