The Latest: UN official slams Taliban over reprisal killings

GENEVA — The U.N. quality rights main says her bureau has received credible allegations of reprisal killings by the Taliban of erstwhile Afghan information forces, arsenic good arsenic instances successful which officials successful the erstwhile authorities and their relatives were arbitrarily detained and aboriginal turned up dead.

Michelle Bachelet, speaking connected Monday to the Human Rights Council, warned of a “new and perilous phase” for Afghanistan arsenic she criticized the Taliban for a disconnect betwixt their words and actions.

She cited “multiple” allegations of Taliban house-to-house searches looking for officials from the erstwhile authorities and “people who cooperated with U.S. information forces and companies.”

Such searches took spot successful astatine slightest a half-dozen cities, Bachelet said. U.N. staffers person besides reported expanding attacks and threats, she added, without providing specifics.

“My bureau has received credible allegations of reprisal killings of a fig of erstwhile ANSF (Afghan National Security Forces) personnel, and reports of officials, who worked for erstwhile administrations and their household members being arbitrarily detained,” she said. “In immoderate cases, the officials were released, and successful others, they were recovered dead.”

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Bachelet besides highlighted “deeply troubling information” astir Taliban raids connected offices of immoderate advocacy groups.

“In contradiction to assurances that the Taliban would uphold women’s rights, implicit the past 3 weeks women person alternatively been progressively excluded from the nationalist sphere,” she told the 47-member assembly arsenic it opened its autumn session.

She said girls aged implicit 12 person been barred from attending schoolhouse successful immoderate places successful Afghanistan, and “Women’s Affairs” departments had been astatine times dismantled.

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HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — France’s overseas curate has expressed disappointment successful Afghanistan’s recently formed Taliban government, saying the radical truthful acold has failed to unrecorded up to its promises of offering a much mean and inclusive benignant of leadership.

Speaking alongside his Qatari counterpart during a sojourn to Doha connected Monday, Jean-Yves Le Drian says “the effect we person seen from Kabul truthful acold is not up to our expectations.”

Le Drian said France and the remainder of the planetary assemblage volition proceed pressing the Taliban not to harbor terrorists, to let the unafraid transportation of humanitarian assistance and to support the rights of women, among different demands.

“We person heard the statements made (by the Taliban), though we are waiting for actions,” Le Drian told reporters. “Words are not enough.”

Qatar, a tiny Gulf Arab authorities that has hosted a Taliban bureau successful its superior for years and played an outsized relation successful the evacuation of U.S. and overseas forces from Afghanistan, sent a high-level diplomatic delegation to the state connected Sunday.

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Qatar’s Foreign Minister Mohammad bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said Qatari officials utilized those discussions to “encourage the Taliban to prosecute with the planetary community” and debar isolation by preserving the hard-won gains of Afghan people, peculiarly women, implicit the years.

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