Terry Glavin: Bloodshed, not peace, awaits Afghanistan in the wake of U.S. pullout

It is in any case a peace process in name only. The slaughters continued throughout a three-day “ceasefire” for the Eid holiday from last Thursday to Saturday. A pro-Taliban Hanafi “scholar” ordered the assassination of a Sufi imam in Kabul on Saturday, one of several outrages over the weekend. Within 24 hours after the Eid holiday had ended, the Afghan government recorded 110 attacks in 23 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces.

More than a decade ago, the work of negotiating with the Taliban had fallen to Burhanuddin Rabbani, the president of the Islamic republic the Taliban overthrew in the 1990s. Any American exit strategy that proposed power-sharing arrangements with the Taliban would threaten to drag Afghanistan back into the sectarian warfare that preceded the al-Qaida atrocities of Sept. 11, 2001, Rabbani told me.

Relatives mourn next to the coffins of two of the 85 victims of a car bomb outside a school in Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 9, 2021. Most of the victims were Hazara schoolgirls.Royesh is a Hazara, the principal of the co-educational Marefat High School in Daste-Barchi, a Hazara enclave of more than a million people in Kabul.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has warned that the pattern of attacks on the mainly Shia Hazaras in recent years — dozens of targeted bombings and assassinations — has all the hallmarks of genocide.

Yep. 5 minutes after the troops leave, the Taliban will take over ...again.

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