Pemimpin Taliban berkata hukuman mati adalah bahagian daripada Islam, beberapa hari selepas empat lelaki dibunuh dengan tembakan di Afghanistan selepas mereka disabitkan kesalahan membunuh.
Hukuman mati berlaku di stadium sukan pada Jumaat, jumlah tertinggi yang diketahui telah dilakukan dalam sehari sejak Taliban kembali berkuasa pada 2021. Kumpulan hak asasi manusia dan PBB mengecam pembunuhan itu.
Pemimpin Taliban, Hibatullah Akhundzada sebelum ini menolak keperluan undang-undang Barat di Afghanistan.
Dalam klip audio dikeluarkan pada Ahad oleh ketua jurucakap Taliban, Zabihullah Mujahid di X, Akhundzada berkata: “Kita mesti menjalankan langkah-langkah disiplin, melakukan solat dan ibadat. Kita mesti masuk Islam sepenuhnya. Islam tidak hanya terhad kepada beberapa ritual; ia adalah sistem yang menyeluruh bagi semua perintah Tuhan.”
Tidak ada satu pun perintah Islam yang harus ditinggalkan, katanya pada seminar pengajar haji semasa ucapan selama 45 minit di wilayah selatan, Kandahar.
Tuhan telah memerintahkan manusia untuk bersolat dan melaksanakan hukumannya, kata Akhundzada, sambil menambah bahawa Taliban tidak berperang untuk kuasa atau kekayaan sebaliknya untuk “melaksanakan undang-undang Islam”. Dia menolak kritikan terhadap hukuman mati.
Mahkamah Agung Afghanistan sebelum ini memutuskan bahawa empat lelaki terbabit bersalah kerana membunuh. Hukuman mati dijatuhkan selepas keluarga mangsa yang didakwa enggan memberikan pengampunan kepada lelaki terbabit.
Komen Akhundzada datang ketika Taliban mencari penglibatan lebih besar dengan masyarakat antarabangsa, yang terbaru Barat.
Amerika Syarikat bulan lalu telah menarik balik ganjaran kepada tiga tokoh kanan Taliban, termasuk menteri dalam negeri yang juga mengetuai rangkaian kuat yang dipersalahkan atas serangan berdarah terhadap bekas kerajaan Afghanistan disokong Barat.
Taliban telah membebaskan empat rakyat Amerika daripada tahanan tahun ini, menyifatkan pembebasan ini sebagai “normalisasi” hubungan antara AS dan Afghanistan.
AP, 13.4.2025
The Taliban leader says executions are part of Islam
The Taliban leader said executions were part of Islam, days after four men were killed by gunfire in Afghanistan after they were convicted of murder.
The executions took place in sports stadiums Friday, the highest number known to have been carried out in one day since the Taliban returned to power in 2021. Rights groups and the U.N. condemned the killings.
Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada has previously rejected the need for Western laws in Afghanistan.
In an audio clip released Sunday by the Taliban’s chief spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid on X, Akhundzada said: “We must carry out disciplinary measures, perform prayers and acts of worship. We must enter Islam completely. Islam is not just limited to a few rituals; it is a comprehensive system of all divine commands.”
Not a single command of Islam should be left unfulfilled, he told a seminar of Hajj instructors during a 45-minute speech in southern Kandahar province.
God had commanded people to pray and to enforce his punishments, said Akhundzada, adding that the Taliban did not wage war for power or wealth but rather to “implement Islamic law”. He rejected criticism of the executions.
Afghanistan’s Supreme Court earlier ruled that the four men were guilty of murder. A death sentence was handed down after families of the alleged victims refused to grant the men amnesty.
Akhundzada’s comments come as the Taliban seek greater engagement with the international community, most recently the West.
The United States last month lifted bounties on three senior Taliban figures, including the interior minister who also heads a powerful network blamed for bloody attacks against Afghanistan’s former Western-backed government.
The Taliban have freed four Americans from custody this year, describing these releases as the “normalization” of ties between the U.S. and Afghanistan.
AP, 13.4.2025
