Hundreds of The Afghan people Protest against killing of Rabbani.
Tue Sep 27, 2011 5:30 am
KABUL, Afghanistan Hundreds of residents took to the streets of Kabul, on Tuesday (27/09/2011), rallied to condemn the killing of former president Burhanuddin Rabbani.
Demonstrations of this kind is the first since Rabbani, President Hamid Karzai's main emissary in the peace effort with the Taliban.
Afghanistan key figure in the era of Soviet occupation was killed by a suicide bombing last week.
Most of the rally participants are citizens of the Afghan Tajiks, like Rabbani. They chanted "death to Pakistan", "death to the Taliban" and "death to terrorists". They accused the Pashtun-dominated militias.
There are fears the killing Rabbani will trigger new conflicts among ethnic Pashtuns with other ethnic groups.
Rabbani's funeral on Friday (23/07/2011) then held noisy. Thousands of mourners approached the casket fighting over his remains to be lowered into the grave.
The rally on Tuesday raised by Amrullah Saleh. Former intelligence chief was also bloody Tajik and a key figure in the Northern Alliance against the Taliban in the 1990s. At that Rabbani was the leader of this movement.
The protesters carry pictures of another Northern Alliance leader who was also killed the Taliban in recent months. They include-daud General Mohammad Daud, Afghanistan's northern region police commander who was killed last June.
Many leaders of the Northern Alliance, which is mostly of Tajiks, now in government. Many of those who oppose Karzai's efforts to conduct peace talks with the Taliban after the killing of Rabbani.
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