The National Resistance Council for the Salvation of Afghanistan has reported credible evidence of forced displacement in the Afghan provinces of Maidan Wardak, Bamiyan, Ghor, and other regions.
According to a statement released on Friday, the council accused the Taliban of directly supporting the displacement activities in coordination with nomadic Kuchi groups, alleging these actions are aimed at deliberately altering the demographic composition of targeted areas.
The council highlighted systematic threats, intimidation, dispossession, denial of fundamental human rights, and forced expulsion faced by indigenous communities, particularly in Behsud district of Maidan Wardak, Panjab district in Bamiyan, and parts of Ghor province.
The Resistance Council, comprising political factions and former jihadi leaders opposed to Taliban rule, condemned the displacements as violating fundamental principles of national coexistence, human rights standards, and Islamic and legal provisions. It characterised these acts as “collective crimes, structural discrimination, and ethnic cleansing.”
The council further warned that such forced displacement is not merely a local or isolated issue, but rather part of a broader strategy to erase historical identities, culturally and geographically marginalise indigenous communities, and reinforce the Taliban’s authoritarian and monopolistic control.
Describing the Taliban as lacking “political, legal, and popular legitimacy,” the council called upon the United Nations, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and other international monitoring organisations to clearly condemn these actions, send investigative teams to the affected regions, and formally document cases of forced displacement.
In recent weeks, hundreds of families from Dawlat Yar district in Ghor province and Panjab district in Bamiyan province have reportedly been forced from their homes by Taliban forces.
