RASC News Agency: Residents of Dolatyar District in Ghor Province have reported to the media that the Taliban’s campaign of vengeance and forced displacement has persisted extensively in this province over the past three years. In the most recent instance, the Taliban governor in Ghor, in collaboration with the Ministry of Tribes and Ethnicities, has ordered the immediate evacuation of approximately 600 families in Dolatyar District. Under this decree, the local inhabitants are compelled to vacate the area without delay. The Taliban have explicitly forbidden the residents from taking their belongings, agricultural produce, or even the doors and windows of their homes, leaving them to depart empty-handed.
According to informed sources, Ahmad Shah Deendost, the Taliban-appointed governor of Ghor, invited Noorullah Noori, the Taliban’s Minister of Tribes and Ethnicities, to the province, where they conspired to forcibly displace these people and redistribute their lands to Taliban affiliates. Notably, one of the Pashtun tribes relocated to this province had been granted these lands for free by despotic rulers of the past. This tribe sold the land to non-Pashtun residents, but today, the Taliban are seizing these lands by force and returning them to the same tribe, despite the fact that the current owners have built homes and lives on them.
It is worth mentioning that over the three years of their rule, the Taliban have repeatedly displaced thousands of Tajik, Uzbek, and Hazara citizens from their homes, handing over these properties to Pashtuns. The Global Panjshiri Council reported about a month ago that the Taliban have forcibly displaced 2,477 individuals, including women and children, from Panjshir Province over the past three years, and have moved their own families into the vacated homes. The report further noted that, in addition to forced displacements, land seizures, and mass killings, the Taliban have established military bases in the villages and towns of Panjshir with the presence of 21,000 fighters, causing widespread harassment and suffering for the local population.
