Taliban have killed at least 100 former officials, says UN

In addition to the political killings, women’s rights and the right to protest have also been curbed.

Afghan women protest in Kabul lat month. Picture: AFP

A UN report seen on Monday says the Taliban and its allies allegedly killed more than 100 former Afghan government members, security personnel and people who worked with international forces.

The report, an advance copy of which was seen by Agence France-Presse, describes severe curtailing of human rights by Afghanistan’s new Islamist rulers. In addition to the political killings, women’s rights and the right to protest have also been curbed.

“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.

Since the Taliban seized Kabul on August 15, the UN mission in Afghanistan has received more than 100 reports of such killings that it deems credible.

More than two-thirds of those were “extra-judicial killings committed by the de facto authorities or their affiliates”.

Additionally, “human rights defenders and media workers continue to come under attack, intimidation, harassment, arbitrary arrest, ill-treatment and killings,” it said.

It also detailed a clampdown on peaceful protests, as well as a lack of access for women and girls to work and education.

Afghanistan is in the grip of a humanitarian disaster, worsened by the Taliban takeover that prompted the West to freeze international aid and access to billions of dollars’ worth of assets held abroad.

AFP