Nearly 3,000 Civilians Killed & Injured In Afghanistan Over Past Year, Reports Rawadari
Findings of a report by a new human rights organisation show that 2,932 civilians had been killed and wounded in the “terrorist and targeted attacks" over the past one year in Afghanistan. The report published by Rawadari has assessed the human rights situation in Afghanistan.
According to Rawadari’s findings, "At least 210 people, mainly employees of security and defense institutions of the previous government; judges; defense lawyers; human rights defenders; people associated with popular uprisings; former employees of government and non-government institutions, and civilians accused of collaborating with the ISIS group, National Resistance Front and other groups opposed to the Taliban, have been systematically and purposefully killed and wounded by the Taliban.”
The findings of this report include human rights violations of Afghan citizens from August 15, 2021, to August 15, 2021.
Previously, the New York Times had reported that nearly 500 soldiers and employees of the former government had disappeared or had been killed by the Taliban in the first six months of their rule over Afghanistan.
Rawadari is a network of human rights activists that investigates and documents human rights violations in Afghanistan.
Shahrazad Akbar, the former head of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, is the director of this newly established human rights organisation.
