RASC News Agency: Human Rights Watch published a statement on Tuesday, August 22, saying that Taliban forces have not stopped their revenge killings against police, army and national security officers of the previous government in the last two years.
Referring to the new UNAMA report on extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances by the Taliban, Human Rights Watch said that Alia Azizi, the former head of the Herat Women’s Prison, is still missing.
This organization has expressed its concern about the extra-legal killings of the previous government’s soldiers and said that in the last two years, the severe revenge actions of the Taliban group forces against them have not stopped.
Human Rights Watch has said that UNAMA has documented 148 cases of extrajudicial killings of soldiers of the former government in the first four months of the Taliban’s control over Afghanistan.
This institution has said that UNAMA has documented 70 extra-legal killings that took place between January 1 and December 31, 2022, and has continued to document such incidents until 2023.
According to this institution, on May 17, 2023, the forces of the Taliban group shot and killed a soldier of the former government army in Takhar province.
In addition, this organization added that the forces of the Taliban group have arbitrarily arrested the members of the security forces of the previous government and did not provide any legal reason for their arrest and often kept them away from communicating with family members and defense lawyers.
Human Rights Watch has said that such cases are enforced disappearances under international law.
Based on the UNAMA report, this organization said that Taliban officials tried to deny these killings and disappearances based on “personal enmity or revenge” and downplay these statistics. Accordingly, the results of any investigation or punishment have not been made public.
This institution recently mentioned the issue of “general amnesty” by the leadership of the Taliban group for former members of the security forces and said that this did not prevent the local commanders from carrying out revenge attacks.
It should be mentioned that Alia Azizi, the head of Herat Women’s Prison in the previous government, disappeared in October 2021 and there is no reliable information about her fate. Although before this, Azizi’s family members told the media that she is alive and that one of the local commanders of the Taliban group in Herat province forced her to marry him.
