A United Nations Organization (UN) said on Tuesday (14) that it was alarmed by the continuing reports of extrajudicial killings across the country. Afghanistan, including hangings, beheadings and public displays of corpses.
“Between August and November, we received credible allegations of more than 100 killings of former Afghan national security forces and other people associated with the former government, with at least 72 of those deaths attributed to the Taliban,” said Nada Al-Nashif, commissioner of rights human rights, to the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
THE Taliban he refuted the UN findings, saying there was “no evidence” of the allegations. The group announced a general amnesty on Aug. 15 and insisted that no one was harmed thereafter.
The country’s deputy spokesman, Bilal Karimi, told the CNN that they didn’t punish anyone who had worked with the previous government or ISIS without a court decision.
“All the former government officials are living normally in Afghanistan, nobody hurts them,” he said, adding that people “are only killed when they are in direct fights with the Islamic Emirate.”
A CNN could not get more information about the UN findings.
In his speech in Geneva, al-Nashif also warned that a deep humanitarian crisis threatens basic human rights in Afghanistan.
She highlighted the reversal of women’s rights, saying that several women’s rights advocates have been threatened since the Taliban’s takeover.
Both Al-Nashif and the UN council said they were “deeply affected by the increase in reports we’ve received of women victims of violence who cannot seek security and justice.”
“Women’s shelters in Afghanistan have been closed and most incidents of violence and harmful practices against women and girls will either go unreported or will be resolved through traditional dispute resolution mechanisms,” added al-Nashif.
She also said that since August, “at least eight civil society activists and two journalists have been killed, with others wounded in attacks by unidentified gunmen.”
Last month, a report released by Human Rights Watch (HRW) alleged that the Taliban executed dozens of members of the Afghan security forces after they surrendered following the August takeover. the country too contested this report.
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Reference: CNN Brasil
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