RASC News Agency: The “Purple Saturday’s” movement, in response to the publication of the recent report of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on the killing and disappearance of at least 800 former soldiers by the Taliban group, said that the report published by this organization is “incomplete”.
On Tuesday, August 22, the Purple Saturday’s Movement, by publishing a statement, said that through the committee to support former soldiers, it has seriously followed the cases of human rights violations against the country’s former security forces, and based on this, it believes that the report published by UNAMA it is not complete.
This movement added that in the past two years, the Taliban group has arrested a large number of former soldiers in various parts of the country, especially in the provinces of Kabul, Parwan, Panjshir, Kapisa, Baghlan, Badakhshan, Takhar, Balkh, Jawzjan, Faryab, Kandahar and Herat. They have killed without a crime.
According to the announcement of this movement, the UNAMA report reflects a small part of the crimes committed against the security and defense forces of the country by the Taliban group.
In this announcement, it is stated that the Taliban group did not hand over the bodies of former soldiers to their families in many cases and refused to provide details about the fate of the detained soldiers.
At the same time, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) published a report and announced that this organization has recorded at least 218 cases of extrajudicial killings of officials and members of former security forces by the Taliban group.
During this period, this organization has registered at least 800 cases of extra-judicial killings, arbitrary arrests, tortures and forced disappearances of officials and soldiers of the previous government.