The United Nations (UN) denounced, Tuesday, December 14, “Extrajudicial executions” former members of the Afghan security forces and others associated with the former government, attributing seventy-two of them to the Taliban.
“Between August and November, we received credible allegations of more than 100 executions of former members of the Afghan national security forces and others associated with the former government, of which at least 72 were attributed to the Taliban “, declared the Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Nada Al-Nashif, before the Human Rights Council.
“I am alarmed by persistent reports of extrajudicial executions across the country, despite the general amnesty announced by the Taliban after August 15”, she added. “In several cases, the bodies were displayed in public. This has exacerbated the fear among a significant part of the population ”, estimated Mme Al-Nashif.
Furthermore, “In Nangarhar province alone, at least fifty extrajudicial executions of people suspected of being members of IS-K [Etat islamique au Khorassan] seem to have been committed “, she said again.
“Personal rivalries or enmities”, according to the Taliban
The United States and its Western allies have already said at the beginning of December “Concerned” by “Summary executions” former members of the Afghan security forces by the Taliban regime, exposed by human rights organizations, and called for the rapid opening of investigations.
The NGO Human Rights Watch released a report which it claims documents “The killings or disappearances of forty-seven former members of the Afghan national security forces who surrendered or were detained by the Taliban forces between August 15 and October 31”. But the Taliban dismissed the accusations, which they tried “Unjust”.
“There have been cases of murders of former members of the security forces” of the government overthrown last summer, “But because of rivalries or personal enmities”, however, admitted the spokesperson for the Taliban interior ministry, Qari Sayed Khosti.