
UN sounds alarm over extrajudicial killings in the Taliban's Afghanistan
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The United Nations (UN) said Tuesday that it was alarmed by continuing reports of extrajudicial killings across Afghanistan, including hangings, beheadings and public displays of corpses.
"Between August and November, we received credible allegations of more than 100 killings of former Afghan national security forces and others associated with the former Government, with at least 72 of these killings attributed to the Taliban," Nada Al-Nashif, UN deputy high commissioner for human rights, told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
The Taliban have rejected the UN's findings, saying there was "no proof" of the allegations. The group announced a general amnesty from August 15 and insisted that no one had been harmed after that.

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