When the Taliban took power, they announced that local and government officials were under a general amnesty. A UN report now shows that the Islamists have apparently killed more than 100 of them since August.
The radical Islamic Taliban have killed more than 100 former government employees and local international troops in Afghanistan since taking power last August. Apparently a UN report.
“Despite the announcement of a general amnesty” for government and armed forces employees, the UN has received “credible allegations of killings” and “enforced disappearances,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ report on Sunday.
Two-thirds “extrajudicial killings” by the Taliban
According to the report, more than two-thirds of these killings were “extrajudicial killings committed by the de facto authorities or their allies”. In addition, “human rights defenders and media workers continue to face attacks, intimidation, harassment, arbitrary arrest, ill-treatment and killings.” The report also highlights the Taliban’s crackdown on peaceful protests and the lack of access for women and girls to jobs and education.
Since their return to power, the radical Islamic Taliban have been more moderate than during their first rule from 1996 to 2001. The country is caught in a serious humanitarian crisis. According to the UN, more than half of the population will starve this winter. Foreign aid, which made up around 80 percent of the Afghan state budget, was frozen after the Islamists took power. The West ties the release of funds to respect for human rights by the internationally unrecognized Taliban government in Kabul.
Source: Stern
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