The Taliban executed dozens of members of the Afghan security forces after they surrendered following the zealots’ seizure of Afghanistan in late summer, new exploration released by Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday alleges.
The HRW report detailed”the summary prosecution or executed exposure”of 47 former members of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), including military help, police, intelligence service members and civil host, who had surrendered to or were restrained by Taliban forces between August 15 and October 31.
HRW says the report is grounded on a aggregate of 67 interviews, including 40 in-person interviews with substantiations, cousins and musketeers of victims, and Taliban fighters. Some people were granted obscurity by HRW for their report. In some cases, families report stories of people who simply faded.
The report focuses on Ghazni, Helmand, Kandahar, and Kunduz businesses, but HRW says”the cases reflect a broader pattern of abuses reported in Khost, Paktiya, Paktika, and other businesses.”
CNN has not suitable to singly confirm the claims in the report.
A Taliban deputy spokesperson rejected the HRW report, saying that the Taliban established a general remittal on their first day of power in Afghanistan.” Grounded on that all service andnon-military help of the former government were forgiven and told they could live typically in Afghanistan, that no one could harm them,”Bilal Karimi told CNN.
Bilal did admit that there were events when”some former forces were harmed,”but not as numerous as reported, adding that any” limited incidents”in which security forces were hurt were” due to particular hostility,” rather than Taliban policy.
HRW’s exploration indicates that Taliban forces have killed or forcefully faded further than 100 former security forces members in just these four businesses in the three months since their preemption of the capital Kabul, on August 15.
HRW experimenters add,”They’ve also targeted family members of former security force members.”
A man from Kandahar described to HRW what happed when the Taliban knocked on his door searching for his family, a former member of the ANSF.
“There was a knock on the door. The (Taliban) asked’Is (your family) home?’I said no.’ Don’t be spooked, tell him, we want to talk to him.’I said no, he’s not home. A couple of days latterly, they took my family from the road. We looked everyplace. We went to the Taliban, who denied involvement. Two days latterly we plant his body.”
“Summary killings and executed discoveries have taken place despite the Taliban’s blazoned remittal for former government mercenary and military officers and solace from the Taliban leadership that they would hold their forces responsible for violations of the remittal order,”HRW says.
One Taliban fighter described a former captivity functionary who was allegedly executed after being called back to work in August.
“The commanders called him back to the job after a many days (after taking control of Kunduz). They said,’Your job is then, you know this job.’The captivity has three gates. (‘Muhammad’) crossed the first gate. He was shot dead between alternate and the third gate.”
“In the weeks before the Taliban overran Kabul, vengeance killings, including the targeting of government officers, were formerly on the increase in major metropolises and along crucial roadways,”HRW says, adding”The Taliban, through their intelligence operations and access to employment records that the former government left before, have linked new targets for arrest and prosecution.”
HRW alleges information that was collected as part of a so- called” remittal program”that would guarantee the safety of surrendering ANSF forces was used”to detain and pithily execute or forcefully vanish individualities within days of their enrollment, leaving their bodies for their cousins or communities to find.”
