RASC News Agency: In a recent investigative report, the Panjshiryan Worldwide Council has claimed that the Taliban have killed 283 individuals, including women and children, in Panjshir during their three years of rule in Afghanistan. The council released a report on Monday, August 5th, stating that despite denying the existence of the Resistance Front, the Taliban have deployed 21,000 armed forces to Panjshir and established military bases to carry out killings and torture of the province’s residents.
The report stated: “Beheadings, eye gouging, summary executions, and killing individuals in front of their families are among the brutal acts that demonstrate the horrific nature of these killings by the Taliban.” The Panjshiryan Worldwide Council emphasized that what the Taliban have done in Panjshir is condemned not only by Islamic law but also by national and international laws and social norms, constituting criminal behavior. The council reported that Panjshir residents have been subjected to organized and vindictive violence by the Taliban for nearly three years.
The report further noted: “The Taliban have forcibly displaced 2,477 people, including women and children, from various districts of the province and replaced them with their own family members.” According to the report, the Taliban have violated social norms by entering residents’ homes and farms without prior notice and have taken control of drinking water sources in several villages. The report also stated that the Taliban have forcibly taken over the income of the people and monopolized butcheries, wood sales, and bakeries in four villages.
This comes amid repeated warnings from the international community about the Taliban’s massacres and violence in Panjshir. Human rights organizations have described the Taliban’s actions against the people of Panjshir as vindictive and unjust.
