Why would you want the Talibans to win?
The worst attack on civilians came in summer of 1998 when the
Taliban swept north from Herat to the predominantly Hazara and
Uzbek city of Mazar-i-Sharif, the largest city in the north.
Entering at 10 am on 8 August 1998, for the next two days the
Taliban drove their pickup trucks "up and down the narrow streets
of Mazar-i-Sharif shooting to the left and right and killing
everything that moved -- shop owners, cart pullers, women and
children shoppers and even goats and donkeys." More than 8000
noncombatants were reported killed in Mazar-i-Sharif and later in
Bamiyan. Contrary to the injunctions of Islam, which demands
immediate burial, the Taliban forbade anyone to bury the corpses
for the first six days while they rotted in the summer heat and
were eaten by dogs. In addition to this indiscriminate slaughter,
the Taliban sought out and massacred members of the Hazara, a
mostly Shia ethnic group, while in control of Mazar.
