Afghanistan: Advancing Taliban Execute Detainees

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image An Afghan security personnel stands guard along a road in Kandahar on July 14, 2021. © 2021 by Javed Tanveer/AFP via Getty Images (New York) – Taliban forces advancing in Ghazni, Kandahar, and other Afghan provinces have summarily executed detained soldiers, police, and civilians with alleged ties to the Afghan government, Human Rights Watch said today. Residents from various provinces told Human Rights Watch that Taliban forces have in areas they enter, apparently identify residents who worked for the Afghan National Security Forces. They require former police…

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