The Taliban opened fire today on people waving its flag Afghanistan at an Independence Day rally. Several people were killed in the Afghan city of Assadabad, an eyewitness said, a day after three people were killed in another protest.
Demonstrations by people waving the Afghan flag, in some cases after destroying the white flag of the Taliban, according to media reports, are the first signs of popular opposition to the Taliban after their impressive advance across the country and the capture of the capital Kabul on Sunday. .
It is unknown at this time what he will do after leaving the post., said Mohamed Salim from this city, capital of Kunar province (east).
“Hundreds of people took to the streets,” Salim was quoted as saying by Reuters and the Athenian News Agency. “At first I was scared and did not want to go but when I saw one of my neighbors joining them I took out the flag I have at home.”
“Several people were killed or injured in the trampling and by their fire Taliban».
A Taliban spokesman was not immediately available for comment.
Demonstrations also took place but there were no reports of serious violence in the eastern city of Jalalabad and a section of Paktia province, media reported.
Afghanistan celebrates its 1919 independence from British control on August 19.
Yesterday, Wednesday, Taliban fighters fire on protesters waving black, red and green Afghan flag in Jalalabad, killing three people, witnesses said and media reported.
Media outlets reported similar scenes in Assadabad and another eastern city, Host, on Wednesday, with protesters in some parts destroying the white Taliban Islamic flag.
First Vice President Amrullah Saleh, who is trying to form an anti-Taliban front, has voiced support for the protests.
“I salute those who raise the national flag and thus support the dignity of the nation,” he wrote on Twitter.
Saleh said on Tuesday that he was in Afghanistan and that he was the “legitimate caretaker president” after the departure of President Ashraf Ghani when the Taliban occupied Kabul.
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