After a breakdown with data from former Afghan local armed forces in Great -Britain, the Taliban -ruling in Afghanistan disputed a prosecution of these local armed forces. “No one was arrested for his earlier acts, no one was killed and no one was checked on Thursday,” said the deputy spokesperson for the Valliban government, Hamdullah Fitrat, in Kabul on Thursday.
Media reports, according to which the former local powers of the British government affected by the data leak, have been observed and prosecuted by the Islamists, are “wrong,” Fitrate added.
Defense Minister admits Panne
The British Minister of Defense John Healey had made public on Tuesday that 4,500 Afghans had secretly received asylum in the UK after their data had accidentally announced. The breakdown was due by a British officer in 2022, as Healey said in parliament – six months after the takeover of Taliban in Afghanistan.
The Minister of Defense continued 4,500 people – 900 Afghan local forces and their family members – were admitted to Great Britain, because the then British government considered it a risk. A total of 2400 other people must be recorded as part of the program. The recording program was kept secret for security reasons. A British court had abolished confidentiality on Wednesday.
Taliban speaks of “rumors”
British media had reported that the Taliban had observed the former local powers and tried to prevent them from leaving. On Thursday Fitrat spoke about “rumors”, who served to “spread fear”. The Taliban government was also not dependent on the British data leak, its authorities would have all the information about the former local armed forces.
Taliban leader Haibatullah Akhundzada announced an amnesty for Afghans after the takeover of power in 2021, who previously worked as local employees for NATO countries or the previous Afghan government. However, the UN support mission in Afghanistan (Unama) had stated in 2023 that there were credible reports on serious human rights violations of the Taliban against former employees of the authorities and the army. According to this, there were at least 800 cases between August 2021 and June 2023 in which people were killed without legal proceedings, randomly arrested, stored, tortured and abused.
In August 2021, the United States, Great Britain, Germany and other allies ended after about 18 years by NATO led in Afghanistan. The capital Kabul then fell back into the hands of the radical Islamic Taliban. Thousands of Afghan local armed forces who had worked for Western actors in Afghanistan and were considered particularly in danger after the Taliban had been taken over.
Source: Krone
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