Taliban Kill Former Military Officer After Two Days of Detention in Kapisa Province
[8am] Local sources in Kapisa province have reported that the Taliban
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killed a former military officer after detaining him for two days in the province.
Sources speaking to Hasht-e Subh revealed that the former military officer, identified as Mohammad Akbar, was killed by the Taliban on Friday, September 8.
According to sources, the Taliban detained Mohammad Akbar on Wednesday night, September 6, from his home in Ali Khail village in the center of Kapisa.
Mohammad Akbar was a former officer in the previous government’s army and had been previously detained and imprisoned by the Taliban three times on charges of collaborating with gangs opposed to the Taliban.
Sources further added that this former military officer had no affiliations with any group and was known to be seeking amnesty under the Taliban’s general amnesty claims in the country.
The detention, torture, and killing of former military personnel and government officials by the Taliban are not new occurrences.
Previously, human rights
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organizations had expressed concerns about the detention, torture, and execution of former government military personnel by the Taliban, but these claims have consistently been denied by the Taliban.
Unknown Gunmen Shoot Former Military Officer Dead in Balkh
[8am] Local sources in Balkh Province have reported that unidentified button men shot and killed a former government military officer in the region.
Sources speaking to Hasht-e Subh have disclosed that the former military officer was named Faiz Mohammad and was brutally killed on Thursday, September 7th, in his residence in the Kart-e-Sulh area of the seventh district of Mazar-e-Sharif city by unidentified button men.
Faiz Mohammad had served as an officer in the Ministry of Interior of the previous government.
While the motives and perpetrators behind Faiz Mohammad’s murder remain unclear at this time, sources have implicated the Taliban
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This incident adds to a series of similar events since the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan, where numerous former government officials and military personnel have been targeted and killed in various parts of the country. Human rights organizations have accused the Taliban of being complicit in such incidents.
In a recent development, the United Nations
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Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) released a report on August 22nd, stating that from August 15th, 2021, to June 30th, 2023, they have documented at least 800 cases of extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detentions, torture, and enforced disappearances of government officials and military personnel.
Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesperson for the Taliban, denied the findings of the UNAMA report regarding the massacres and torture of former officials and military personnel by their forces but acknowledged instances of "personal vengeance" against former government officials.
