I am not accusing the Taliban 2.0 regime of committing ethnic cleansing in Afghanistan. Not now, at least. However, the frequency of ethnically motivated crimes across Afghanistan by the regime against certain ethnic communities is concerning. People are rightfully worried. The Taliban's record of ethnically-charged war crimes is dark and bloody. The memories of the Mazar Massacre in 1998, the Yakawlang's Massacre in 2001, the Taliban's scorched-earth offensive in Shamali plain in 1991, and many other less known crimes still hunts people.

Over the last 48 hours, the Taliban regime has terrorized more than a million Tajik residents of Kabul. The victims are mainly from #Panjshir, #Parwan, #Kapisa, and other northern provinces. The Taliban militias have surrounded multiple districts, breaking into houses, beating ordinary people, confiscating people's belongings, and investigating families at gunpoint. No one in the surrendered localities is allowed to leave. Multiple sources in Kabul, which I talked to, confirm the indiscriminate brutality of the regime's militias that