The Washington Examiner wrote in an article citing an eyewitness that the Taliban arrested 600 Tajik men from the provinces of Panjshir, Kapisa, and Parwan in September 2021 and February this year and massacred them.
Source: Afghanistan International
This article argues that the recent UNAMA report cannot reflect the actual number of casualties.
Beth Bailey, a freelance writer, quotes Ahmad (a pseudonym) and writes in this article that these Tajik men, aged 16 to 35, fled to the northern provinces to save their lives, but were arrested by the Taliban on charges of joining the National Resistance Front.
According to Ahmad, the Taliban said they would transfer these people to a prison in Kandahar, so they prepared buses to show that they were being transferred, but these people were killed and buried en masse at night. Ahmad added: "The victims were killed and buried at night, the graves were covered with earth and stones."
The article cited eyewitnesses to the incident and said that the Taliban killed these people while blindfolded and threatened the witnesses with death if the murders were discovered.
Many victims' families refrain from talking to the media due to the threat and fear of the Taliban.
UNAMA incomplete report
This article states that the number of casualties exceeds what is reflected in a recent UNAMA report.
This is while the United Nations office in Afghanistan, UNAMA, announced last week in its ten-month report that the Taliban have killed 160 people without trial, of which 59 belong to ISIS and 18 belong to the National Resistance Front.
But the author of this article says that compared to the figures provided by other agencies, the figures in the UNAMA report are very low.
This article states that the United Nations reported the killing of 100 ex-soldiers and 50 members of ISIS in February of this year.
Also, according to a New York Times report published in April, in the first six months of Taliban rule, about 500 former soldiers were either killed or went missing.
Human Rights Watch also reported that 100 people were killed in 34 provinces of Afghanistan between August and September last year.
Beth Bailey wrote in an article sent to the Washington Examiner that the Taliban either cannot control their people or are unwilling to account.
According to this author, in both cases, the massacres should be investigated and found to have taken place in other areas, and evidence of these crimes against humanity should be presented to the International Criminal Court.
Sangar: The following message is taken from another source and tells about an incident that took place on July 29 in the city of Kabul. To quote him, the UNAMA report on the killing of "ISIS members" is also questionable. To this day, the Taliban kill Tajiks, resistance members, soldiers, and former government officials under the name of "fighting ISIS."
Taliban night operation against former soldiers under the pretext of suppressing ISIS:
The Taliban conduct night operations with the use of light and heavy weapons in various areas of Kabul inhabited by Tajiks to detain former soldiers, brutally kill people, taking with them a number of their neighbors or relatives, and in the media, these hostile actions are presented as “suppression of ISIS”.
Last night, again paying no attention to the situation of the people, they launched a heavy operation in area 315 of Kabul. Although they were not given the slightest resistance from the people they needed, they began to attack the house they wanted and nearby houses with light and heavy weapons. They fired so many rockets at these houses that they all burned down, but today they announced this operation in the media as “the fight against ISIS”. We knew these neighbors of ours for more than 30 years, and they were one of the most honest and disinterested people in this district and they did no harm to anyone.
We ask the respected worldwide civil society organization of Afghans in Europe and all international and human rights organizations to stop this tyranny and ethnic cleansing of the Taliban in Afghanistan as soon as possible and not leave the Afghan people alone in the power of these predators.
I hope you publish this message in full and protect our violated rights.
Sender: Hamidgul Salar (pseudonym)
