RASC News Agency: A groundbreaking joint investigation by several international and Afghan media outlets has revealed damning evidence that the Taliban regime has systematically executed at least 110 former members of Afghanistan’s security forces over the past two years. The findings shatter the Taliban’s hollow narrative of “general amnesty,” exposing a calculated campaign of revenge and intimidation designed to eliminate remnants of the former republic’s defense apparatus.
The investigation conducted collaboratively by The Independent (UK), 8am Daily, Etilaat Roz, Lighthouse Reports, and Military Times paints a grim picture of Taliban brutality and duplicity. It documents how former officers, police, and elite commandos who once fought to defend Afghanistan are now being hunted, detained, and murdered with impunity. Many of those targeted had served in cooperation with NATO and U.S. forces, making them prime victims in the Taliban’s vengeful purge.
According to the findings, the killings were most concentrated in Kabul, Kandahar, Nangarhar, Balkh, and Helmand regions where the Taliban’s intelligence networks and repressive security units operate with near-total authority. Former soldiers and officers are subjected to midnight raids, arbitrary arrests, and torture sessions, often followed by executions disguised as “terrorist operations” or “criminal incidents.”
Investigators emphasize that the real toll is likely far higher than the 110 documented cases. Widespread fear, surveillance, and reprisals have silenced witnesses and obstructed any meaningful documentation. Families of victims are routinely threatened to remain quiet or risk further persecution. The report recounts chilling stories, including the case of Ali Gul Haidari, a former special forces commander who was captured, tortured, and ultimately executed in front of his family after Taliban fighters surrounded his home an act that epitomizes the group’s moral depravity and culture of revenge.
Over a six-month investigation, the research teams verified dozens of incidents involving torture, enforced disappearances, and summary executions of former Afghanistan National Defense and Security Forces members. The report confirms the deaths of several former officers and the torture of others who had participated in joint counterterrorism missions with U.S. forces. These acts, the report argues, reflect not isolated abuses but a systematic state policy of retaliation and terror under Taliban rule.
Despite repeated promises of clemency, the Taliban’s proclaimed “amnesty” has proven to be nothing more than a hollow facade of deception. Far from offering reconciliation, the regime has cultivated an atmosphere of fear and humiliation, seeking to erase the very memory of the republic and its defenders. Analysts describe this campaign as a continuation of the Taliban’s longstanding contempt for professionalism, merit, and accountability values once embodied by the republic’s military institutions.
In response to these revelations, U.S. Congressman Mike Lawler strongly condemned the Taliban’s atrocities and urged Washington to uphold its moral and strategic responsibility toward its former Afghanistani partners. “Turning a blind eye to these murders,” Lawler warned, “would remain a permanent stain on America’s moral conscience.” His remarks echo the growing frustration among U.S. lawmakers and human rights advocates who accuse the international community of abandoning those who once risked their lives to defend democratic values in Afghanistan.
The findings also reinforce earlier reports by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and multiple human rights organizations, all of which have documented the Taliban’s pattern of killings, abductions, and arbitrary detentions targeting former soldiers and police officers. Nevertheless, Taliban spokesmen continue to deny the allegations, dismissing credible investigations as “Western propaganda” an excuse that only highlights the group’s intellectual bankruptcy and diplomatic isolation.
Security experts warn that the Taliban’s ongoing campaign of retribution is eroding what remains of Afghanistan’s fragile stability. By dismantling the country’s professional military class, the regime has weakened national security, empowered extremist factions, and driven thousands of skilled officers into exile or silence. The result, they argue, is a state dominated by clerical incompetence and internal fear a regime that rules through violence rather than legitimacy.
Ultimately, this investigation exposes the Taliban not as a government, but as a violent insurgent movement masquerading as a state one that sustains its rule through repression, deceit, and blood. Each killing of a former soldier is not merely an act of vengeance; it is part of a deliberate strategy to obliterate Afghanistan’s modern institutions, silence dissent, and ensure that no competing vision of governance ever rises again.
