UN Official Slams Taliban Over Reprisal Killings

UN Official Slams Taliban Over Reprisal Killings
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet delivers a speech at the opening of a special session of the UN Human Rights Council on Afghanistan in Geneva on Aug. 24, 2021. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images
The Associated Press
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The U.N. human rights chief says her office has received credible allegations of reprisal killings against former Afghan security forces, and cases in which some former officials in the previous government and their relatives were arbitrarily detained—and later turned up dead.

Michelle Bachelet, speaking Monday to the Human Rights Council, warned of a “new and perilous phase” for Afghanistan as she upbraided leaders of the Taliban terrorist group for a disconnect between their words and actions.