Such a statement from an organization like the UN seems unlikely. In an age when people are becoming more aware of their nature, an institution (UN) with such an extreme approach is an insult to society and people.
Source: National Resistance Front website, www.nationalresistance.org.
On July 19, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) published a report on the human rights situation during the 10 months of Taliban rule.
UNAMA said the report is a summary of the body's findings on the killing, torture, ill-treatment, and arbitrary detention of civilians and violations of the rights of women and girls.
This UNAMA report states that from mid-August 2021 to mid-June 2022, 700 civilians were killed and 1,406 were injured.
UNAMA blamed the Khorasan branch of ISIS for most of the civilian casualties during this period, which in itself is questionable.
This figure comes at a time when international organizations, including the Commission on Human Rights and UN Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan Richard Bennett, have repeatedly reported signs of human rights violations and war crimes in Panjshir, Andarab, Takhar, Balhab, Nangarhar, and Kandahar.
These figures are actually a mockery of the innocent people who die daily under the yoke of the Taliban.
Logically, there should be more casualties in war zones than in other areas.
There are no signs of ISIS presence in areas where the Taliban have committed war crimes.
ISIS, al-Qaeda, and other terrorist groups operate under the auspices of the Taliban in other regions, and there have always been clear signs of a connection between these groups.
On May 28, the Taliban shot dead three peasants in the province of Takhar, the next day, members of this group shot two people in Herat and put their bodies at the crossroads.
On the same day, in two separate incidents, the Taliban shot and killed an ethnic elder and another man in Samangan.
On May 16, the Taliban killed two people in Anjuman village, Karan Manjan district, Badakhshan province.
On the same day, the Taliban shot and killed a boy named Abdullah in Panjshir.
The day before, a tribal leader named Juma Naseri was killed by the Taliban in the province of Ghazni.
On May 15, the Taliban shot dead a man in Takhar province and threw his body to the dogs.
On the same day, members of this group shot and killed two brothers in Panjshir and killed three others in Deh Salah, Andarab. (1)
These cases happened in just a few days and were reported to the reliable media.
While there are other cases of killing by the Taliban that is not reported in the media, including dozens of people whose bodies were found in a canal in Nangarhar.
Human Rights Watch released a report on July 7 saying that the Taliban killed these people under the pretense of belonging to ISIS and threw their bodies into the canal. (2)
In part of the UN report, UNAMA spoke about the violation of the Taliban's general amnesty and said it had recorded at least 160 cases of killings of government and security officials of the previous government who were killed by the Taliban.
While the United Nations revealed the number of killings of government officials by the Taliban, António Guterres, the former secretary general of this organization, said seven months ago, on January 31 this year: the organization has “credible sources” who say that since the new government in Afghanistan came into force, more than 100 former government members, members of the security forces, and people who collaborated with international forces have been killed.
The UN Secretary-General named this figure after the publication of the Associated Press report about the tragic murder of former soldiers of the Afghan government by the Taliban.
That was a possible figure, and the actual number of ex-soldiers killed during the five months of Taliban rule was much higher, but now the UN is giving a 10-month figure of 160, which is clearly indicative of "hiding the truth".
The New York Times, in an investigative report published on April 12 this year, reported the killing and kidnapping of at least 500 former security and government officials during the six months of Taliban rule.
The New York Times, in explaining its methodology for preparing this report, said that this report used a variety of verification methods, including conducting video investigations, forensics, corroborating local news reports, working with human rights organizations, and interviewing survivors and family members of murdered victims. (3)
According to this report, revenge killings were widespread and affected all regions of the country; Because of what families fall apart. This report called the Taliban's promises of "tolerance and moderation" towards the opposition "false".
As stated, this report was about the killing of the Taliban in the first six months of their invasion of Afghanistan. 500 people in six months! So, how can the UN report be considered real, when the UN statistics, with a total statistics of 178 arbitrary arrests and 23 cases of arrest without communication in 10 months, is 361 cases. The figure is less than the figure disclosed by the New York Times in six months! The most interesting thing is the UN's expectations of the Taliban.
In this report, this organization awaits the reaction of the Taliban and states that this group should investigate human rights violations in Afghanistan.
The request to investigate human rights cases from a terrorist group is suggestive.
Part of this report states that this institution documented 18 cases of murder, 54 cases of torture and ill-treatment, and 113 cases of arbitrary arrest of members of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan.
This report indicates that 217 cases of cruel, inhuman, and degrading punishments have been carried out by the Taliban since 15 August.
This part of the UNAMA report raises the most doubts.
Hundreds of people are arrested, tortured, and shot every day across Afghanistan under the pretext that they are affiliated with the National Resistance Front.
The 18 killings the UN recalled occurred in just one week and in the same area.
The number of people killed by the Taliban on suspicion of links with the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan reaches more than 250 people.
In part of the report, UNAMA expressed concern about the activities of the Taliban Department of Good and Prohibition of Evil and stated that the Taliban's instructions are "recommendatory" in nature, but sometimes the Taliban take a harsh stance on the implementation of these recommendations.
Such a statement from an organization like the UN seems unlikely. In an age when people are becoming more aware of their nature, an institution with such an extreme approach is an insult to society and people.
The agency said that since the Taliban came to power, women and girls have been "gradually" deprived of their rights to education, work, and other aspects of life.
Whereas immediately after this group invaded the country, women were removed from all levels and this process was not at all gradual. Women and girls were completely deprived of education in the early days of the Taliban invasion, and since that day the doors of state institutions have been closed to them.
Elsewhere, the UN reported that there were 173 cases of violations of the rights of journalists and media workers, 163 of which are associated with the Taliban. The organization added that six journalists have been killed in Afghanistan in 10 months, and the Khorasan branch of ISIS has been identified as the killer of five of them.
This is despite the fact that the Afghan media collapsed after being occupied by the Taliban, various programs are published at the request of the Taliban, and the media are not allowed to publish any programs or even reports without the consent of the Taliban.
Censorship has completely overshadowed the Afghan media, and repressions are practiced against the media and journalists in the full sense of the word.
Journalists covering civic activities face torture, beatings, insults, and humiliation at the hands of the Taliban. (3)
On March 28 this year, the Taliban arrested 3 journalists in Kandahar province.
On the same day, two journalists were arrested in Herat province. Reporters Without Borders released a report on June 11 and announced that the Taliban had arrested 12 journalists in Afghanistan in May alone.
In addition to these cases, you will learn the truth about United Nations reports by going once into the Afghan media publications and comparing them with the media prior to the group's aggression. (4)
UNAMA considered ISIS a major factor in the killing of journalists.
Since last August, ISIS has taken root in the country and has grown under the shadow of the Taliban as a group with common roots, common resources, common views, and common thoughts, and actions. There is no doubt that ISIS, like the Taliban, is an enemy of the Afghan people, but how can a group that is responsible for the deaths of thousands of Afghans claim that another terrorist group is the main reason for killing journalists? The answer to this question brings us to the truth, namely the cover-up of crimes by the Taliban, the perpetrators of which are the terrorist group itself.
As part of the report, UNAMA referred to shortages of food, medical care, and hygiene supplies for prisoners and the suspension of vocational training programs.
Although some parts of the report mentioned the punishment of prisoners, this part should refer to the newspaper Independent Farsi investigation report, which was published on July 3 this year.
The opening lines of this investigative report, revealing the cruel punishment of prisoners by the Taliban, indicated that over the past ten months, no agency and organization, including the UN, had been able to visit these prisons. (5)
Part of the Independent Farsi report states: “No organization or agency, including the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, has been allowed to visit Taliban-controlled prisons in the last 10 months to monitor the conditions of detention.
This difference brings us closer to the contradiction in the UN report and other documented reports.
A copy of the actual UN report was not published in July this year. Paper Foreign Policy obtained a copy of the UN report, which shows "the abuse of women and children, the crackdown on the media, the persecution of civil society activists, the closure of human rights organizations, and the replacement of public education with religious indoctrination by the Taliban continue in earnest."
This Foreign Policy report states that this version of the UNAMA report confirms details of "gross" violations and abuses by the Taliban group.
A foreign policy report written by Lynn O'Donnell pointed out that the UNAMA report shows that nearly one year of United Nations cooperation with the Taliban has led to a big change in the group's disregard for basic human rights, including human rights, the right to access food and education. (6)
In this report, Lynn O'Donnell revealed other things as well. This Australian journalist, who headed the Afghanistan bureau of AFP and the Associated Press between 2009 and 2017, was recently arrested in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
On Wednesday, July 20, she wrote in an article: "Afghanistan has become the prey of terrorists who have not been able and cannot turn from a fighting force into a responsive structure."
O'Donnell says she has learned the true face of the Taliban in Kabul: cruel, arrogant, and inhuman. According to him, fear can be seen on the faces of the city's inhabitants; People who have no job, no money, and no hope for the future.
In addition, she tweeted yesterday that she was arrested by "Taliban intelligence" and "under pressure she was forced to apologize for writing her three or four previous tweets." (7)
This Foreign Policy columnist explained that Taliban intelligence threatened her to post an apology text on her Twitter account or she would be imprisoned.
According to her, the Taliban copied and published the text she wrote under pressure, and at the same time recorded a video in which she admitted that she was not under pressure.
She says that after she was freed by the Taliban, she asked to be allowed into Panjshir, but the Taliban rejected her request.
It is not the Taliban's approach to this senior foreign reporter that is dubious, but the difference between the leaked version of the UN report in Foreign Policy magazine and the organization's recent human rights report.
As we mentioned from the very beginning, the report of international organizations on the situation in Afghanistan under the rule of the Taliban is very different from the report of UNAMA.
International organizations should pursue a policy of communication and helping people, but this policy should not be carried out at the expense of hiding the truth and justifying a terrorist group.
SOURCES:
(1) Newspapers “8 subh” and “Ittilooti ruz”
(2) Human Rights Watch
(3) New York Times
(4) Reporters Without Borders
(5) Independent Farsi
(6) Foreign policy
(7) Foreign policy.
