Taliban skins alive, then throws young Afghan man off 10-storey cliff
Islamic extremist groups have upped their brutality in torturing victims before killing them. The past few months was full of reports of the Islamic State beheading, burning and stoning to death their victims or throwing off high buildings gay men.
The Washington Post reports that the distant relatives of Fazl Ahmed was suspected of being the killer of an ex-Taliban commander. To avenge the commander’s death, Taliban extremists abducted Ahmed from his house and gouged his eyes.
Not content with blinding the young man, who was still alive despite the torture, the Talibans carved the skin off Ahmed’s chest and left the heart of the 21-year-old laborer exposed. To finally end the life of Ahmed, they pushed him down a 10-storey cliff, according to Ghor Province officials.
The gory crime was documented in a video and photo which has become viral. However, the Talibans denied having a hand in skinning Ahmed alive.
Afghanistan has a long history of religious and cultural conservatism featuring violent retribution. When the Taliban ruled the Middle Eastern nations, thousands of Afghans were publicly executed after the turn of the millennium.
Even though the Taliban are no longer in control of the war-torn nation, public lashings, executions and killings continue, says Abdul Jama, Ghazni Province council member. A recent YouTube posting showed a woman wearing a burqa killed by a Taliban militant in Jowzjan Province using an assault rifle for alleged adultery.
In Ghazni Province, Taliban fighters cut off the nose and ears and then killed a high school student whom they suspect of being a spy.
Describing the recent rash of violent acts across the nation since January, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani told media last week, “The amount of casualties, particularly with civilians, is a crime – a crime against humanity, a crime against Afghanistan, and a crime against our people.”
In a medical forum in Arstechnica, the question was asked what are the survival chances of a person skinned alive? An expert replied the victim would likely die shock almost instantly, and the chances of someone living after being skinned is just minutes. Another reply was that even if a person survives the initial shock of instantaneous skinning, death from secondary infection is certain.
VIDEO: Taliban killing innocent people
