Human Rights Committee equates killings with war crimes – Taliban call allegations “baseless”
The U.S. and British embassies in Kabul today blamed the Taliban for the massacre of dozens of civilians in retaliation in the Spin Boldak area of southern Afghanistan, which they had seized on July 14.
“These killings may be war crimes. “The militants or Taliban leaders responsible must be held accountable,” the two embassies said, using similar terms on their respective Twitter accounts, citing a report by the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission. organization.
The two embassies stress that “the Taliban administration must be held accountable for the crimes of its fighters. “If you are not able to control your fighters now, you have nothing to do with the government later.”
For his part, Suhail Sahin, a member of the Doha-based Taliban negotiating team, told Reuters that the accusatory tweets were ” baseless allegations “.
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In its report, the Afghan Human Rights Commission wrote that “it found that after occupying the Spin Boldak area, the Taliban searched for and located past and present government officials and killed those people who had no combat role.”
The commission said it had identified 40 people killed in the area by the Taliban, but “according to some, which could not be verified at the moment, the number could be higher.”
The insurgents also retaliated against the residents, who had welcomed the Afghan forces, in an attempt to retake the area , which ultimately failed, mainly pounding their homes. Civilians were also killed for “personal motives” and “past conflicts”, according to the commission. These killings in Spin Boldak by the Taliban are a clear violation of international humanitarian law and can be equated with war crimes, the Commission estimates.
According to the same source, “at a time when the Taliban administration has officially confirmed that its fighters are not attacking civilians or civilian buildings, this incident and the like show the opposite: the organization does not adhere to the principles of international law in practice. with regard to human rights and humanitarian law “.
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