Paul Comiti, died in January in Paris, shows how the Taliban, who promised mountains and wonders, reveal today their inability to administer a country.
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In September 2021, Paul Comiti – Death in Paris on January 14 – had returned to Afghanistan, two months after realizing the situation of a country at war that still thought it could protect themselves from the Taliban yoke. On August 15, Kabul fell faster than expected, resulting in a chaotic departure of Westerners again in all memories. Hence the return on the spot of the great reporter, who wanted to find characters he had filmed in July 2021 to show what had become “under Taliban emirat”.
Based on good intention, this report can leave some sense of mess from the one who was a bayeux prize of war correspondents in 2009 for Afghan ambush. Meeting a Taliban is not an information in itself, it is only a way to go beyond the well-crafted propaganda of a hard diet. By opting for a superposition of images and characters, Paul Comiti has taken the risk of giving a partial vision of what has become Afghanistan.
The author has had access to places still little visited by the Western media. He went to the Pul-e-Charkhi Prison near the Afghan Capital, Most Detention Under Most Afghan Plans. The Taliban also made a symbol of their judicial system. The opportunity was nice to evaluate what has long been at the heart of the Talibane doctrine: his righteousness, if “effective”, say the Islamists, that it would have been the very motor of massive support from the population. favor. The quick visit of the place, framed by Taliban guards, will only bring anecdotes. And we will not have any information on the functioning of the courts, their effectiveness – and more broadly the capacity of the new masters of the country to manage an entire country.
without recoil
The few precautions taken to detach from the official discourse, in particular on the question of women, by no means the author of reporting, without recoil, other words of the authorities who would have justified strong shades in the treatment and The commentary of the documentary. How to qualify the Talibane Police of “Proximity Police” when one knows its taste for the hunt for political opponents or for intelligence? One can only be satisfied with the only version affirming that drug addicts are “left in peace” while they are the subject of a strong repression throughout the country.
The time of guerrillas is not governance. The Taliban, which promised Mountains and Wonders, now show their inability to administer a country that requires gray matter, freedoms and not just an ideology backed by the Divine Word.