TO a little more than a year after the withdrawal of the US armed forces, the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan and continue to govern through violent repression. It is the denunciation of Amnesty International in the report “The rule of the Taliban: a year of violence, impunity and false promises“. A thorough investigation, which highlights the very serious violations of human rights and the massive impunity towards those who committed torture, killings for reasons of retaliation, forced evictions of opponents.
Amnesty International: all rights canceled in Afghanistan
In one year, the Taliban, a statement reads of the organizationhave systematically dismantled key institutions for the protection of human rights. And repressed freedom of expressionof association, the right to a fair trial and other human rights.
Freedom of expression punished with death
Repression has affected every aspect of democratic life and human rights defenders and civil society activists have suffered intimidation and threats, they were arrested and even killed. Also there freedom of the press has come under attack. In the past 13 months, over 80 journalists, Amnesty continues, they were arrested and tortured for dealing with peaceful protests. But, in general, every form of dissent is stifled with violence and in the last 13 months there have been hundreds of extrajudicial executions.
In Afghanistan, the Taliban rule through violent repression.
Persecuted minorities
Similarly, the Taliban regime has started again persecute ethnic and religious minorities: thousands of people, mainly Hazara, Turkmen and Uzbeks, have been brutally driven out of their homes. By the end of June 2022, according to United Nations estimates, the number of internally displaced people had grown by more than 820,000.
Amnesty International: women without a future
But the ax of the Taliban regime is also falling heavily on the lives of Afghan women. The Taliban they suppressed the right to education for women over the age of 12, thus darkening the future of millions of girls. And dozens and dozens of women have been arrested and tortured for taking part in peaceful demonstrations in favor of their rights.
The complaints and the pressure on the governments of the world
Since the beginning of the crisis, Amnesty International it is committed to documenting and defending the trampled human rights in the country. But beyond that, the organization it mobilizes and pressures governments around the worldand provides assistance to hundreds of human rights defenders in the country.
But to continue fighting against violence and war crimes every day, Amnesty International has need everyone’s support. A struggle for truth and justice that each of us can carry out, to bequeath a more just world to those who remain and who will arrive.
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