3 Opponents Killed in Badakhshan, Claims Taliban
Taliban officials have reported the death of three members of their opposition groups in Badakhshan province. Moezuddin Ahmadi, Director of information and culture in Badakhshan, said, “These rebels wanted to commit destructive actions in Raghistan district of this province”.
Taliban call the resistance fighters as rebels.
Taliban-affiliated media outlet, Bakhtar News Agency, quoted Ahmadi, as saying, “Three rebels have been killed and one has been wounded in an ambush of security forces in Badakhshan province on Thursday night.”
United Nations and human rights organisations have objected to the killing of civilians by the Taliban in the absence of a fair judiciary system.
On August 18, Amnesty International in a statement said that in the past one year, thousands of Afghans have been arbitrarily arrested, tortured, disappeared or even killed by the Taliban.
Stating that the Taliban have committed gross violations of human rights and conducted revenge killings that have repeatedly occurred, the watchdog group has emphasized on creating a mechanism for effective investigation and accountability in Afghanistan.
