An Afghan folk singer was killed by a Taliban member in a restive mountain district under unknown circumstances, according to his relatives. This reflected concerns that the insurgents would revert to their repressive control in the country after their military assault ousted the government.

Fawad Andarabi was shot and died in the Andarabi Valley, on Friday.

Since the Taliban took control of the valley, it has been in upheaval, with certain areas falling under the hands of anti-Taliban militia forces. The Taliban claim to have retaken those territories, however the Hindu Kush province of Panjshir remains the only one of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces not under their control.

Fawad Andarabi’s death comes as the US prepares to end a historic airlift that saw tens of thousands of people evacuated from Kabul’s international airport, which has been the epicenter of most of the mayhem that has enveloped the Afghan city since the Taliban took control two weeks ago.

Jawad Andarabi, Andarabi’s son, told the Associated Press that the Taliban had previously checked his father’s home and even had tea with the singer. On Friday, though, something changed.

“He was innocent, a singer who only was entertaining people,” his son explained. “They shot him in the head on the farm.”

His son expressed his desire for justice, claiming that a local Taliban council had pledged to bring his father’s killer to justice.

The Taliban’s spokesperson, Zabihullah Mujahid, told the Associated Press that the militants will investigate the death, but he had no more information.

Andarabi sung traditional songs about his home, his people, and Afghanistan as a nation while playing the ghichak, a bowed lute. On one of his performances, he was seen seated on a mat with the mountains of his home surrounding him while he sang.

“There is no country in the world like my homeland, a proud nation,” he sang. “Our beautiful valley, our great-grandparents” homeland.”

Former Afghan interior minister Masoud Andarabi commented with the video on Twitter: ‘Taliban’s brutality continues in Andarab. Today they brutally killed folkloric singer, Fawad Andarabi who simply was bringing joy to this valley and its people.

‘As he sang here ‘our beautiful valley….land of our forefathers…’ will not submit to Taliban’s brutality.’

Amnesty International’s secretary-general, Agnes Callamard, condemned the death as well.

“There is mounting evidence that the Taliban of 2021 is the same as the intolerant, violent, repressive Taliban of 2001,” she wrote on Twitter. “20 years later. Nothing has changed on that front.”

Following a suicide assault by an Islamic State affiliate that killed over 180 people, the Taliban beefed up security around the airport as the UK stopped evacuation flights on Saturday.

Meanwhile, private banks across Afghanistan began operations on Sunday. They did, however, limit withdrawals to the equivalent of $200 each day.

While some people are still unable to access their funds, government workers claim they have not been paid in four months. The Afghani is now trading at about 90.5 to the dollar, continuing to depreciate as billions of dollars in the country’s reserves remain locked abroad.