{"id":52591,"date":"2021-11-30T11:13:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T11:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/11\/30\/taliban-kill-abduct-dozens-of-ex-officers-rights-group\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T08:29:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T08:29:39","slug":"taliban-kill-abduct-dozens-of-ex-officers-rights-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/flashpoints\/2021\/11\/30\/taliban-kill-abduct-dozens-of-ex-officers-rights-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban kill, abduct dozens of ex-officers: rights group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

KABUL (AP) \u2014 Taliban fighters<\/a> have summarily killed or forcibly \u201cdisappeared\u201d more than 100 former police and intelligence officers since taking power in Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch said in a report Tuesday. The group pointed to continuing retaliation against the armed forces of the ousted government despite an announced amnesty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taliban forces have hunted down former officers using government employment records and have targeted those who surrendered and received letters guaranteeing their safety, the report said. In some cases, local Taliban commanders have drawn up lists of people to be targeted, saying they committed \u201cunforgivable\u201d acts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe pattern of killings has sown terror throughout Afghanistan, as no one associated with the former government can feel secure they have escaped the threat of reprisal,\u201d Human Rights Watch said in the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Taliban seized power on Aug. 15 when they swept into the capital Kabul as the internationally backed government collapsed. Kabul\u2019s fall capped a stunningly swift takeover by the insurgents, who had taken a string of cities as U.S. forces and their allies withdrew from Afghanistan after nearly 20 years of war<\/a>. Since that time, the Taliban have been struggling to deal with the collapse of the country\u2019s economy and have faced an increasingly deadly insurgency by the Islamic State group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taliban forces have also targeted people they suspect of supporting the Islamic State group in eastern Nangarhar province, an epicenter of IS attacks, the report said. In the province\u2019s capital Jalalabad, a fierce, 8-hour gunbattle erupted Tuesday when Taliban forces raided a suspected hideout of IS militants, witnesses said. Provincial intelligence chief Tahir Mobariz said that during the fighting, a woman and a man in the house detonated suicide vests, dying in the blasts, and third person was killed by gunfire. Two suspected militants were arrested, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\t