Afghanistan: Taliban again accused of killing civilians
Former Ambassador of Afghanistan to the United Nations, Nasir Ahmad Andisha, speaking in Geneva, Switzerland, August 24, 2021. REUTERS - DENIS BALIBOUSE
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Nasir Ahmad Andisha, the ambassador of the former Afghan government to the United Nations, on Tuesday, September 14 called on the latter to once again investigate human rights violations by the Taliban.
Last week, the Human Rights Council accused Kabul's new masters of increasingly resorting to violence to quell protests.
According to the BBC, the Taliban killed 20 civilians in Panshir.
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In a video broadcast on social networks and partially picked up by the BBC on Monday, September 13, a passer-by is surrounded by the
Taliban
, taken to the side of the road and executed, while a resident insists: he is not a soldier , despite the trellis he wears. It is a very common way of dressing in the
Panshir valley
, explains the journalist.
The British channel claims that at least 20 civilians have been killed in the region since the Taliban took Kabul in August. And the BBC gives, at the request of his family, the name of one of the victims: Abdul Sami, a trader accused of selling SIM cards to resistance fighters arrested by the Taliban. According to witnesses, his body, thrown a few days later in front of his house, showed signs of torture. Panshir was the last region to resist after the Taliban victory. The latter deny any murder of civilians.
But information on abuses committed by the new masters of Kabul is increasing: Monday, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,
Michelle Bachelet
, explained that she had received credible accusations of murders of former Afghan soldiers and of arrests of civilians who had worked for previous administrations and their families.
And this while the Taliban have, on several occasions, affirmed that they all benefited from an
amnesty
.
"Millions of people fear for their lives and their rights"
In Geneva, Tuesday, September 14, Nasir Ahmad Andisha, the former Afghan government's human rights ambassador, called for the UN to immediately open an investigation into the violence committed by the Taliban. After having already made this call on August 24, without success, he again tries to make himself heard.
“
Contrary to the cautious optimism that prevailed before, Afghanistan's situation on the ground continues to deteriorate under the Taliban regime. What is presented as an
interim government
not only endangers the country's national unity, its political and social diversity and increases tensions, but at the same time, once again, it reaffirms the Taliban's blatant disregard for
the rights of the people. women
and Afghanistan's international obligations
, ”he said.
“Today the world cannot and must not remain silent, as millions of people fear for their lives and their rights and a humanitarian crisis is developing in the country.
Women and girls are particularly at risk ”
AFGHANISTAN - Nasir Ahmad Andisha, Ambassador of Afghanistan to the UN, September 14, 2021
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