The United Nations denounces more than one hundred executions of former members of the Afghan security forces and persons associated with the former government, overthrown in mid-August.
Le Monde with AFP
The United Nations (UN) denounced, Tuesday, December 14, “extrajudicial executions” former members of the Afghan security forces and other persons associated with the former government, attributing seventy-two of ‘between them at the Taliban.
“Between August and November, we received credible allegations reporting more than one hundred executions of former members of the Afghan national security forces and other persons associated with the former government, including seventy-twelve at least Have been attributed to the Taliban, “said the Assistant High Commissioner for Human Rights, Nada Al-Nashif, before the Human Rights Council.
“I am alarmed by the persistent information reporting extrajudicial executions throughout the country, despite the general amnesty announced by the Taliban after August 15,” she added. “In many cases, the bodies have been exposed to public. This has exacerbated fear among an important part of the population,” said Al-Nashif.
In addition, “in the only province of Nangarhar, at least fifty extrajudicial executions of people suspected of being members of the Ei-k [Islamic State in Khorassan] seem to have been committed,” she still has been committed. said.
“Rivalries or personal inimities”, according to the Taliban
The United States and their Western allies have already been in early December “preoccupied” by “summary executions” of former members of the Afghan security forces by the Taliban regime, revealed by human rights organizations, and asked for quick opening of surveys.
The NGO Human Rights Watch has published a report which, according to it, documents “murders or disappearances that have been victims of forty-seven former members of the Afghan national security forces who went or were held by the forces. Talibanes between August 15 and October 31 “. But the Taliban rejected these accusations, that they considered “unjust”.
“There were cases of murders of former members of the security forces” of the government reversed last summer, “but because of personal rivalries or inimities”, however, recognized the spokesman of the Ministry of Taliban interior, Qari Sayed Khosti.