New Delhi, Dec 15 : UN deputy rights chief Nada Al-Nashif said that there are credible allegations that over one hundred extrajudicial killings of former security forces in Afghanistan have been carried out between August and November, Khaama Press reported.
The UN has said that the Taliban are blamed for 72 of the killings among over one hundred that also include people that are associated with the former Afghan government, the report said.
Speaking to UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday, Al-Nashif said that she was alarmed by the allegations under the Taliban rule despite their general amnesty announced by them after they recaptured power on August 15.She claimed that in several cases dead bodies are hanged and publicly displayed in particular in the eastern Nangarhar province, the report said.”In Nangarhar province alone, there.appears to be a pattern of at least 50 extrajudicial killings of individuals suspected to be members of the ISIL-KP,” she said, with reports of “brutal methods.including hanging, beheadings, and public display of corpses”.
On the other hand, spokesperson of Afghanistan’s foreign ministry Abdul Qahar Balkhi denied the allegations and added that the government is fully committed to the decree of amnesty and added that anyone accused of the breach of the decree will be prosecuted.san/skp/
Taliban carry out hanging, beheading for public display of corpses: UN
Al-Nashif, speaking to the UN Human Rights Council Tuesday, stated that the Taliban claim was alarming despite the general amnesty they announced after their recapture of power in August 15.According to the report, she claimed that dead bodies were hanged in many cases and displayed publicly in Nangarhar.
She said that there was a trend of 50 extrajudicial deaths in Nangarhar alone of people suspected of being members of ISIL-KP.
There are also reports about “brutal methods” such as hanging, beheadings and public displays of bodies.
Abdul Qahar Balkhi, spokesperson for Afghanistan’s foreign minister denied these allegations.
He said that government was fully committed to amnesty decree and that any person accused of violating the decree would be tried.
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