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The man and woman were accused of adultery in the district of
Dashte Archi in Kunduz province la
August.
Hundreds of people attended the stoning but no-one was charged.
The area is still under Taliban
control.
After viewing the footage, regional police chief Gen Daoud Daoud
said those responsible could be
recognised.
"Special police investigators will be sent there, we will find
them and they will be brought to justicehe told the BBC.
A mobile phone recording of the killings has only just been seen
by Afghan and Nato officials. Most
the video is too graphic to be shown.
Soaked in blood
The video begins with Siddqa, a 25-year-old woman, standing
waist-deep in a hole in the ground.
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Anyone who knows about Islam knows that stoning is in the Koran,
and that it is Islamic law
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She is entirely hidden in a blue burka. Hundreds of men from the
village are gathered as two mulla
pass sentence. As Taliban fighters look on, the sentence is
passed and she is found guilty of adulte
The stoning lasts two minutes. Hundreds of rocks - some larger
than a man's fist - are thrown at h
head and body. She tries to crawl out of the hole, but is beaten
back by the stones. A boulder is th
thrown at her head, her burka is soaked in blood, and she
collapses inside the hole.
Incredibly Siddqa was still alive. The mullahs are heard saying
she should be left alone. But a Talib
fighter steps forward with a rifle and she is shot three
times.
Then her lover, Khayyam, is brought to the crowd. His hands are
tied behind his back. Before he is
blindfolded he looks into the mobile phone camera. He appears
defiant.
The attack on him is even more ferocious. His body, lying face
down, jerks as the rocks meet their
target. He is heard to be crying, but is soon silent.
The couple had earlier eloped to Pakistan, but were lured back
with the false promise that they wonot be harmed.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid defended the sentencing.
In a telephone interview he said: "Anyone who knows about Islam
knows that stoning is in the Kor
and that it is Islamic law.
"There are people who call it inhuman - but in doing so they
insult the Prophet. They want to bring
foreign thinking to this country."
'Fear and hatred'
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Nato's senior civilian representative, Mark Sedwill, said the
Taliban had an "appalling" view of Islam
justice.
But he said the Afghan government needed to improve the rule of
law in the country.
"Communities that are terrorised don't have choices that's why
we have to remove the Taliban in
these communities," he said.
"It is absolutely critical that the Afghan government competes
head-on with the Taliban in this area
the rule of law - so that people don't face the kind of choice
that this community faced."
Ahmed Nader Nadery, of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights
Commission, watched the vid
in full. He said it brought back memories of when the Taliban
ruled the country.
"It not only reminded me of those days in Kabul and other parts
of the country, but it created a
feeling of fear, and of further hatred of this group. And a fear
- what if they return," he said.
Mr Nadery added: "The Afghan government and the international
community have failed to deal w
these grave crimes. It happened at a time when there was a
debate about the future of the
international community, and discussions of their timeline for
leaving the country."
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