PESHAWAR: The United Nations (UN) said that more than 100 people have been extra-judicially killed since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan on 15 August but the Taliban rejected the report, saying that the deaths were the result of personal enmities.
The deputy head of the UN human rights body, Nada al-Nashef, said he has credible information of the extrajudicial killings since the Taliban took control of Kabul in August, according to AFP. He said that despite the announcement of general amnesty after taking control of Kabul, report of extrajudicial killings is a “matter of concern”.
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Nada Al-Nashif was appointed United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights saying that “between August and November, more than 100 former Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) personnel and other former Afghan government officials were killed.” According to Nada al-Nashif, “after the killings in several places, bodies of the victims were brought before the public, causing panic among a large section of the population.”
The Deputy Chief of the UN Human Rights Council briefed the General Assembly on the human rights situation in Afghanistan. Earlier, the United States and other countries had sharply criticized the Taliban for human rights abuses. Earlier this month, Human Rights Watch said in a report that the Taliban had killed 47 people in a summary trial.
The dead, according to the report, included members of the Afghan army, paramilitary forces, police and intelligence who had surrendered to or captured Taliban fighters. The killings took place between August 15 and the end of October, according to Human Rights Watch. Taliban spokesman Qari Syed Khosti rejected the report outright, saying the allegations of extrajudicial killings were baseless and had no evidence. He said some of the ex-servicemen killed were cases of personal enmity or hostility.