3 Former Members of Afghan Security Forces Killed in Balkh
On Thursday, local sources said that Haji Laal, a former local police commander in Chahar Bolak district of Balkh province had been killed by unknown armed men in Mazar-e-Sharif city.
In a separate incident, two other former members of the Afghan national army and police were killed in Mazar-e-Sharif city on Thursday.
According to the sources, Laal Mohammad had been murdered in front of his house in police district 9 of the city on Thursday evening.
One of his relatives told Afghanistan International that recently, he had returned from Iran with the mediation of a local influential figure in Balkh, after believing in the general amnesty offered by the Taliban.
In another incident, Mirwais, one of the former security forces members, and Mohammad Hazara, a former police officer in the previous government, had been murdered in Police District 6 of Mazar-e-Sharif on Thursday afternoon. According to the sources, Mirwais’ father was also one of the former local commanders in the previous government too.
The reports of killing former members of the Afghan security forces surface on a daily basis, while the United Nations in a recent report had said that the Taliban continues to kill former government employees in Afghanistan.
Human rights groups have repeatedly announced that the Taliban are trying to arrest, torture, and eliminate former security forces of Afghanistan.