Hundreds Flee Kandahar as Pressure Rises; Fear of Massacre Haunts Taliban Surrender Talks

The Washington Post | December 4, 2001| | Copyright

U.N. officials said today that hundreds of Afghan civilians are fleeing Kandahar every day in the face of relentless U.S. bombing and mounting pressure by U.S.-backed Pashtun fighters against the last stronghold of Taliban resistance.

Pashtun leaders complained that their efforts to negotiate a surrender in Kandahar have been frustrated by the fears of Taliban fighters that they will be killed if they give up. These fears, combined with orders for a fight to the finish from the Taliban leader, Mohammad Omar, have increased the danger of a bloody street- to-street struggle for the historic ...

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