RASC News Agency: In a statement, the “Powerful Women of Afghanistan” movement expressed its concern about the killing of Afghanistani women, including a number of female activists, in a targeted and mysterious manner and asked the international community and global human rights organizations to hold the Taliban accountable for their actions.
This protest movement said on Saturday, August 26, that the Taliban group, in addition to other crimes against women, has launched targeted killings of civil activists and women’s rights defenders in the past two years.
The Movement of Powerful Women of Afghanistan added: “During the two years of the rule of the Taliban group in Afghanistan, in addition to the fact that women have been deprived of all political, social, economic, cultural, artistic and recreational activities; they have faced insults, humiliation, torture, beatings, imprisonment, rape and mysterious and targeted killings by the Taliban group.
This protest movement of Afghanistani women has published a list of the names of 14 women activists and defenders of women’s rights who were killed in Kabul and a number of other provinces after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan.
It is stated in the announcement that although the Taliban group has placed the responsibility of this killing on the shoulders of “unknown armed persons”; but the Taliban group is responsible for this killing and dozens of other similar killings.
In this announcement, the killing of Hora Sadat, the host of a YouTube channel in Kabul, is also called mysterious and it is stated that the Taliban group secretly buried her body in the “Karta Sakhi” area of Kabul city and her grave is still under the supervision and protection of the Taliban group forces.
The Movement of Powerful Women of Afghanistan also referred to the recent report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNAMA) regarding the violation of human rights in Afghanistan during the two years of the Taliban’s rule and expressed regret over the deaths of more than 200 civil servants and former soldiers.
In the declaration, it is stated: “The Movement of Powerful Women of Afghanistan calls on the international community and organizations that support human rights and women’s rights around the world to stop the crime of the terrorist, fascist and monogamous Taliban group and not let the people of Afghanistan, especially women, become victims and silence their voices.”
In addition, in this announcement, the United Nations and international human rights organizations have been requested to prioritize the investigation of the Taliban group’s crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court and hold this group accountable.
This women’s protest movement has also said: “The international community, especially the United Nations and the Security Council, should interact with the Taliban terrorist group as a single-gender terrorist group and never recognize this group as a government.”
This movement believes that any interaction with the Taliban group and recognizing them means recognizing terrorists.
Earlier, the United Nations Human Rights Council called the actions of the Taliban group against women as systematic discrimination against women.
Richard Bennett, the special rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council for Afghanistan, said that although the Taliban group wants Afghanistan’s seat in the United Nations; but this group is as far away from getting this seat.
