Afghanistan: The New Rulers of Afghanistan: The Taliban’s Campaign to Rob Villagers of Their Land

Oct 6, 2021 | Christoph Reuter und Thore Schröder, Spiegel
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The brutal landgrab in the Tagabdar Valley and two other villages in the area began in early September. Over the subsequent weeks, the expulsions were expanded to include more than a dozen other villages in the remote and difficult-to-access mountains of Daykundi, a province in central Afghanistan. Taken together, they suggest a conflict which could ultimately lead to ethnic cleansing across the country if Afghanistan’s largest ethnicity, the Pashtun, feel emboldened by the Taliban victory to take land and rights from minorities.