‘Cold-blooded’: Taliban accused of executing Hazara people

The Taliban killed at least 11 members of the Afghan forces belonging to the Hazara tribal group in the central walk of Daykundi, shortly after they took power in Afghanistan, according to a new report from Amnesty International.

On August 30, a convoy of 300 Taliban fighters entered Khidr section and killed at least 11 former members of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), nine of whom were taken to a proximate trough warmer where they were executed shortly after having surrendered, the rights group said in its report published on Tuesday.
A 17- period-old girl, connected by the name of Masuma, was killed in crossfire after the Taliban targeted Afghan forces who were essaying to flee the area. Another legionary, Fayaz, a new- wed in his 20s, was also among those killed in the crossfire.

The ANSF members who were killed ranged in age from 26 to 46, Amnesty said. All the victims were Hazara, who were besieged during the Taliban’s first stint in power between 1996 and 2001.
It’s the different profit of Hazaras established by Amnesty. At least nine Hazara men were killed by Taliban fighters in Ghazni front in July before the group captured power, Amnesty reported on August 19.

Both the Taliban and their rivals, the Islamic State Khorasan Province, ISKP (ISIS-K), an ISIL council, have been impeached of targeting the Hazara people, who make up the adultness of Afghanistan’s Shia population.
By September 1, the Taliban had denied the killings. Saidqullah Abed, the Taliban appointed police chief for Daykundi, would only confirm that one of their fighters had been injured in the crossfire.

Raihana Azad, a former member of Parliament for the sphere, also vindicated Amnesty’s report to Al Jazeera, saying the events of August 30 amounted to “ vicious mass killings” carried out by the Taliban.
She said what chanced in Khidr was in direct violation of the Taliban’s claims of a government general pardon for former security forces and government workers

These cold-pedigreed enactments are else substantiation that the Taliban are committing the same hideous abuses they were notorious for during their foregoing rule of Afghanistan,” said Agnes Callamard, Amnesty International’s register-general.

During their five- generation rule in the 1990s, the Taliban were charged of butchering hundreds of Hazaras in the bailiwicks of Balkh and Bamiyan.
Zaman Sultani, South Asia experimenter at Amnesty International, said the killings in Daykundi follow a clear pattern by the Taliban.

He points to a statement that interviewees attributed to a long-lived Taliban officeholder as proof “ I’ve killed people for the once 20 times. Killing is easy for me. I can kill again,” the authorized reportedly told Daykundi inhabitants.
Azad, the former MP, said the Taliban’s abuses in Daykundi don’t end with the killings.

She says that since the Taliban captured the kingdom on August 14, a day before former President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, thousands of families have been forced from their homes in the Gizab and Pato quarters of the mountainous kingdom.
A list anthologized by habitants shows that as multifold as families were forcefully displaced across at least 10 different hamlets over the last month and a half.

Daykundi habitants speaking to Al Jazeera said that when the Taliban came to their homes, the fighters claimed that the families had been unethically engaging the land or that a Taliban shura had decided the land “ belongs to the people”.
Notwithstanding, but it does n’t make sense that there are land differences all across this multifold hamlets, “ If it was just one bourg it may be possible that these were some kind of legal issues.”

She says legion of the families had been living on their land for generations, “ They had the deeds in their hands.”

Mohammad *, a dweller of the Gizab nabe, is one of those people.

The 42- generation-old says his helpmate and children were at home when the Taliban came to their doorstep demanding they vacate the property on September 23. Afraid and doubtful of what to do, all nine people in Mohammad’s family left the house they had lived in for decades.

“ I was a child when that house was confected. I planted the trees outside it myself,” Mohammad said to Al Jazeera from Kabul, where his family now lives.

Before coming to the capital, Mohammad, a former education ministry worker, tried to appeal to the Taliban, but he says it was no use, yea though the fighters who came to his house were from the same nabe as him.

“ I tried to explain to the Islamic Emirate, but they just said,‘It’s been decided that your land now belongs to the people. ’”

Yea his deed was of no use. He was told the decision was made in conformity with Islamic law. Like Azad, nonetheless, Mohammad has difficulty conciliating the Taliban’s defense, saying that yea in a Sharia court, land difficulties can take months, if not periods, to settle.

“ These goods do n’t just comeabout in a matter of weeks,” Mohammad said.

Azad, the former MP, said that with the Afghan time-out fleetly approaching, these forced evictions would lead to a philanthropic tinderbox in a mountainous walk where it can take up to 14 hours to travel from a section to the capital of Nili.

“ Without their homes and lands, these people have no pocket means to move anywhere else, so they ’re just left to live in roofs in fields,” Azad said.

Daykundi is considered one of Afghanistan’s poorest and least- developed specialties. Utmost of the men in the specialty head off to other municipalities or Iran and Pakistan as teenagers to work as day labourers or in mines.

These forced relegations sound to be in line with other reports on the Taliban before their seizure of Afghanistan. In July, Human Rights Watch issued a report from the Northern specialty of Kunduz purporting the Taliban forced at least 400 families to flee their homes.

“ The forced expulsion of civilians is unlawful unless took for the security of the affected civilians or is absolutely necessary for military reasons. Retaliatory attacks are a form of mutual nemesis and are also interdicted,” Patricia Gossman, associate Asia director at Human Rights Watch, told Al Jazeera.