'Unspeakable cruelty': Outrage grows
after Afghan woman's execution
Outrage in Afghanistan and around the world grew on Monday after video emerged showing what officials said was a member of the Taliban shooting dead a woman accused of adultery in front of a crowd near Kabul, a sign that the austere Islamist group dictates law close to the Afghan capital.
"After 10 years (of foreign intervention), and only a few kilometres from Kabul... how could this happen in front of all these people?" female lawmaker Fawzia Koofi told Reuters after watching a video of the public execution.
"It is really very much a sharp turn, and a huge backward (step)," said the campaigner for girls' education, wiping away tears as she spoke.
Authorities in Kabul directly blamed the Islamist group. Meanwhile, the Taliban denied involvement in the killing in Parwan province, in which an unnamed woman's head and body
were riddled with bullets at close range in punishment for alleged adultery.
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