反タリバン戦闘員数千人、「いつでも」戦列復帰可能　抵抗勢力指導者おじ

【ジュネーブＡＦＰ＝時事】アフガニスタンのイスラム主義組織タリバンが完全制圧したと発表したパンジシール渓谷をめぐり、反タリバン勢力「国民抵抗戦線（ＮＲＦ）」指導者のおじは７日、ＮＲＦ戦闘員数千人が「いつでも」戦列に復帰できると主張し、国際社会に支援を求めた。（写真は資料写真）
　タリバンは６日、ＮＲＦが最後の拠点とするパンジシール渓谷を「完全制圧した」と発表し、全土制圧を宣言した。
　ＮＲＦ指導者アフマド・マスード氏のおじアフマド・ワリ・マスード氏は７日、スイスのジュネーブで開かれたシンポジウムで、「パンジシール渓谷にはまだ数千人の戦闘員がおり、いつでも（戦いの場に）戻ることができる。みなさんはその姿を目にすることになるだろう」と述べた。「確かにわれわれは傷を負った。それは事実だ。しかし、死んではいない。われわれはまだ生きている」
　さらに、「われわれは自分たちの権利、自由、民主主義、人権のために抵抗している」と述べ、今度の戦いがアフガンにおける最後のテロとの戦いになるとして、「だからこそ、われわれは負けるわけにはいかない」と訴えた。
　反タリバン武装勢力と元アフガニスタン治安部隊で構成するＮＲＦは６日、パンジシール渓谷各地の「戦略拠点」には現在もＮＲＦの戦闘員がいるとツイッターで主張した。
　ワリ・マスード氏は、旧ソ連と第１次タリバン政権に対するゲリラ戦を率いた司令官故アフマド・シャー・マスード元国防相の兄弟でもある。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】

〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2021/09/09-10:30）

Thousands of fighters opposed to the Taliban can return anytime in the Panjshir Valley, said the uncle of a commander who led fierce battles against the Islamists, appealing on Tuesday for international support for their cause.
Ahmad Wali Massoud was speaking in Switzerland, one day after the Taliban claimed total control over Afghanistan, declaring that they had won the battle against resistance forces in the mountainous Panjshir Valley, northeast of Kabul.
We still have thousands of fighters in the valley, and any time they can come back and you will be witnessing that one, Massoud told a symposium in Geneva.
Yes, we have been wounded and we have been really wounded, but we have not died, we are still alive, he added.
Massoud is brother of the late Ahmad Shah Massoud, the legendary anti-Soviet and anti-Taliban commander assassinated by Al-Qaeda days before the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
Shah Massoud's son, Ahmad Massoud, led resistance to the Taliban in the Panjshir Valley.
On Monday, the Taliban said they had won that battle in what was the last remaining holdout against their rule. They released a video of their flag being raised over the governor's house in Panjshir.
Panjshir is not only resistance, (it) is a cause, an international cause, Massoud told the symposium.
We are resisting for our own right, for the freedom, for democracy, for the human rights...
Probably this is the last opportunity that we can see to really fight terrorism inside Afghanistan, he added.
That's why we should not lose the resistance.
The National Resistance Front (NRF) in Panjshir -- made up of anti-Taliban militia and former Afghan security forces -- on Sunday acknowledged suffering major battlefield losses and called for a ceasefire.
But on Monday the group said in a tweet that its fighters were still present in strategic positions in the valley.