According to a UN report released on Sunday, the Taliban and its allies are accused of killing more than 100 former Afghan government members, security officers, and international military personnel.
According to the report, Afghanistan’s new hardline leadership have severely curtailed human rights, according to an advance copy seen by AFP. Women’s rights and the right to demonstrate have also been restricted, in addition to political killings.
“Despite announcements of general amnesties for former members of the Government, security forces and those who worked with international military forces, UNAMA continued to receive credible allegations of killings, enforced disappearances, and other violations towards these individuals,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s report said.
The UN mission in Afghanistan has received more than 100 reliable reports of similar executions since the Taliban seized Kabul on August 15, according to the study.
“Extra-judicial executions performed by the de facto authorities or their affiliates” accounted for more than two-thirds of the deaths.
Additionally, “human rights defenders and media workers continue to come under attack, intimidation, harassment, arbitrary arrest, ill-treatment and killings,” it said.
The report also detailed a government clampdown on peaceful protests, as well as a lack of access for women and girls to work and education.
