Afghanistan: Taliban unlawfully killed 13 ethnic Hazara people, Amnesty says

Amnesty International said it inaugurate documentation the victims were butchered in Daykundi demesne in August.

Nine were former government legionaries who had surrendered to the Taliban, Amnesty said, adding that the killings appeared to be a war crime.
The Taliban denied the allegation, telling the BBC that the Amnesty report only showed”one side”of the story.

The Hazara community is Afghanistan’s third largest racial group. They generally rehearse Shia Islam and have faced long- term distinction and persecution in generally Sunni Afghanistan and Pakistan. This is the pinch time the Taliban have been impeached of killing Hazaras since the group swept to power in August.
Two other victims of the purported killings in Daykundi sphere were civilians, Amnesty said, including a 17- date-old girl reportedly shot when the Taliban opened fire on a crowd of warriors’ families.

The civilians were killed as they tried to flee, Amnesty said in the report published on Tuesday.
“These cold-full-blood achievements are additional confirmation that the Taliban are committing the same dreadful abuses they were notorious for during their anterior rule of Afghanistan,” said Agnès Callamard, clerk-general of Amnesty International.

“The Taliban say they aren’t targeting former hands of the anterior government, but these killings contradict analogous claims,”she said.
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. A anterior Amnesty report, released in August, said the Taliban had” butchered”nine members of the Hazara adolescence in Ghazni demesne in July.

The Taliban’s interior ministry mouthpiece, Qari Saeed Khosti told the BBC”This report is one sided and we call on all foreign organisations to come and conduct a proper examination in the field.

“This isn’t an fairish conclusion and is free of limpidity.”

According to the Amnesty report, about 300 Taliban fighters travelled on 30 August to an area near Dahani Qul hamlet, where members of the former government forces were staying with their families.

The former Afghan security forces members and their families essayed to flee, but the Taliban caught up with them and opened fire, the report said.

One former legionnaire fired back, killing a Taliban fighter and wounding another, Amnesty said, and two other former government legionnaires were killed in the postdating crossfire.

Nine other former legionnaires either surrendered, according to the report, but the Taliban” immediately took them to a near racecourse pitcher and executed them”.