Multiple reports indicate that Taliban authorities executed four kidnappers suspected by them and made their bodies public to discourage others from Herat, west Afghanistan.
Why it matters: This is another indication of the Taliban's oppressive rule in Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, despite efforts by the interim all-male government to present a more inclusive image.
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This comes just days after a Taliban founder said to AP that severe punishments, including executions and hand amputations, would be returned to Afghanistan.
What's the matter: Saturday interview with Reuters, Sher Ahmad Ammar, deputy governor of Herat, stated that the men abducted a local businessman with his son. However the kidnappers were killed in a gunfire exchange between a Taliban and the Taliban.
He said that the bodies of the Taliban fighters were taken to the main square and displayed in the city as an example for other kidnappers. However, the two kidnapped men were uninjured.
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