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>1996 in September, THe Taliban took Kabul
On September 27, 1996, the bodies of former Afghan president Mohammed Najibullah and his brother Ahmadzai swung from a traffic post in a busy Kabul road. The men were beaten, executed and hung by Taliban fighters, their bodies dragged behind a car throughout the city.
That day, Taliban forces seized Kabul from the famous Afghan military chief Ahmad Shah Massoud and his troops, a victory that would mark the start of five years of Taliban rule in Kabul and large parts of Afghanistan. The Taliban would remain in control until 2001, when they were driven out by the U.S. military and Massoud’s Northern Alliance.
By the time the Taliban arrived in the Afghan capital, Kabul had already turned in ruins. Years of fighting among different groups of mujahedin and between mujahedin and the Taliban left the city completely destroyed. Take a look back at Kabul in the fall of 1996:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/afghanistan-taliban-kabul-anniversary_n_982006
1996: Afghan forces routed as Kabul falls
The capital of Afghanistan has fallen to opposition militia after three days of fierce fighting.
Taleban forces consolidated their grip on Kabul after storming the presidential palace - the country's seat of government - 24 hours ago.
Ousted President Burhanuddin Rabbani, his prime minister and his military chief are being hunted by the radical Islamic group who branded them "national criminals".
The former president, Mohammed Najibullah, and his brother have already been murdered by the militants.
One-eyed opposition leader Mullah Mohammed Omah and his student fighters had been repulsed from the city twice before, but this time it appeared government forces lost the will to fight.
Panic
Hundreds were killed and many have fled for the protection of the Jabal-us-Seraj base north of Kabul.
They leave a ruined, war-torn city deserted by almost all the aid agencies that were working there until a few days ago.
"There was so much panic in the city, so much tension, that everyone who could, fled," said Azad Singh Toor, an Indian diplomat.
But many of the citizens in Kabul are waiting to see if the Taleban can unite the country under one faction after decades of internal conflict.
And the murder of the last communist ruler of Afghanistan, former president Najibullah, was a grim warning to anyone who wished to oppose their version of Islamic rule.
The "Soviet puppet" and Taleban hate figure was dragged out of the UN compound where he had sought refuge in 1992 and was beaten, shot and hanged in front of the presidential palace.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/27/newsid_2539000/2539973.stm