KABUL (Reuters) - Afghans gathered to mourn the assassinated former president and chief peace negotiator Burhanuddin Rabbani, Wednesday, World Day of Peace, as fears mounted that his death could deepen ethnic divisions and push the country into civil war.
Rabbani, perhaps the most important to be killed in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, died at home on Tuesday when the rebels were expected to hold talks detonate explosives hidden in a turban.
The murder was a strong statement of opposition to Taliban peace talks and the latest in a series of killings of high-level shake the confidence of ordinary Afghans that security can be maintained that the foreign forces withdrew.
Rabbani, perhaps the most important to be killed in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, died at home on Tuesday when the rebels were expected to hold talks detonate explosives hidden in a turban.
The murder was a strong statement of opposition to Taliban peace talks and the latest in a series of killings of high-level shake the confidence of ordinary Afghans that security can be maintained that the foreign forces withdrew.
Rabbani was the most influential ethnic Tajik from Afghanistan and his murder may exacerbate ethnic divisions. This may do more harm to the peace efforts that the loss of a negotiator who had been so far little evidence that the steps for the talks.
Hundreds gathered Wednesday in the blocked-off streets around the house Rabbani and armored cars with tinted windows officials, friends and other prominent Afghans in a inside Memorial.
Activities of the World Peace Day planned for the entire capital, including a concert for women by Farhad Darya Afghan singer, were canceled.
Rabbani inner circle chose a hill overlooking Kabul's diplomatic enclave to bury the man who made his name as a fiery speaker and activist, and became an anti-Soviet fighters before a short title after the country collapse of the USSR supported the plan.
"The emergency meeting of the Board of Directors today approved the burial of Professor Rabbani Wazir Akbar Khan at the top," said Waqif Hakimi, a spokesman for Jamiat Islami Afghanistan, Rabbani's party.
Zone has been attacked a week earlier, when the rebels are holed up and firing rockets at the U.S. Embassy and the headquarters of the coalition and NATO-led fight against Afghan and foreign troops 20 hours.
Promise of talks
Several employees of Rabbani said that the bomber had been escorted by security layers without control, because of promises he brought a message from the Taliban leadership.
"It has been said that there would be an important message, but the message he received," the former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah, a protégé of Rabbani, told Reuters.
"He has done a lot to see, is the opportunity to make peace, but the group of murderous Taliban, which we believe do not believe in peace, the signal is sent to the worst."
A Taliban spokesman who claimed responsibility for assassinating the request was repeated on Wednesday, Reuters, but recovered some details about her earlier, including the names of the killers.
The spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, it was a phone number you used before, and his voice was the same as in previous conversations.
Students gathered in the streets of Kabul University wrapped with black flags near the house of Rabbani and bore signs of venting their anger against the government, who blamed his death.
"The situation will deteriorate further by the assassination of our leaders," said Mujeed, a student of 21 years of political rights, the province of Badakhshan Rabbani.
"We have no choice but to arm ourselves and defend the country. It's a conspiracy by the government to get rid of Rabbani, because he was exposing the fact that the government wanted the Taliban to return. "
The group of nine students grouped around him nodded.
Ahmad Wali Massoud, a prominent politician and the brother of the late resistance hero Ahmad Shah Massoud, Rabbani said the death was a catastrophe that could change the political landscape of Afghanistan.
"As he could not do it, I'm sure no one else can make peace with the Taliban," he said. "Some people thought he could do something, but now peace with his death (hope) is dead."
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