Taliban: The United States was violating human rights by massacring and bombing Afghanistan.
Rejecting a State Department report, the Taliban spokesman said human rights had been violated when the United States and its allies killed 200 Afghans a day and bombed homes.
The Taliban have reacted to the release of a State Department report on widespread human rights abuses in Afghanistan by the former Afghan government and the Taliban.
Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban’s central spokesman, said on Thursday (April 25th) that US concerns about human rights abuses in Afghanistan were “unwarranted” because all the basic rights of the people had already been secured.
“Human rights were violated when the United States and its allies killed 200 Afghans a day and bombed their homes,” he added.
Mojahedin misread the US State Department report and stated that the Taliban are fulfilling all basic human rights.
The New York Times, meanwhile, called the Taliban’s amnesty a “false claim” and said the Taliban had used the amnesty as an excuse to kill former militants.
An investigative report by the media shows that in the first six months of the Taliban rule alone, 490 former government soldiers and employees were killed or disappeared by the group. Relatives of soldiers and employees of the former Afghan government are also said to have been among the victims.
A Taliban spokesman denied the report, adding that the New York Times had tried to sow discord among Afghans with such baseless reports.
The State Department, in a recent report, has expressed grave concern about widespread Taliban human rights abuses in Afghanistan.
