{"id":40616,"date":"2021-08-20T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=40616"},"modified":"2021-08-20T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T14:44:00","slug":"amnesty-international-disconnect-between-taliban-claims-and-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=40616","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty International: &#8216;Disconnect between Taliban claims and reality&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">A report by human rights group Amnesty International has said the Taliban recently \u201cmassacred&#8221; and brutally tortured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-58277463\" class=\"ssrcss-9nsdc6-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">several members of the Hazara minority<\/a> in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Following the militant group\u2019s takeover of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Sunday, the Taliban have said that there would be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/world-asia-58220305\" class=\"ssrcss-9nsdc6-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">&#8220;no revenge&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">But Amnesty International\u2019s Brian Castner told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world_radio_and_tv\" class=\"ssrcss-9nsdc6-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">BBC World News<\/a> that there was a real disconnect between \u201cwhat a spokesman or leader might say and what an 18 year old with a Kalashnikov is going to do\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The Hazara community is Afghanistan&#8217;s third largest ethnic group.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-58279967\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report by human rights group Amnesty International has said the Taliban recently \u201cmassacred&#8221; and brutally tortured several members of the Hazara minority in Afghanistan. Following the militant group\u2019s takeover of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Sunday, the Taliban have said that there would be &#8220;no revenge&#8221;. But Amnesty International\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/120092445_p09ssfpd.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}