Afghanistan: Armed Forces

(asked on 2nd December 2021) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she plans to take steps in response to the Hong Kong Watch report's finding that more than 100 former members of the Afghan security forces have been summarily executed or disappeared by the Taliban since it took power in Kabul in August 2021.


Answered by
James Cleverly Portrait
James Cleverly
Home Secretary
This question was answered on 7th December 2021

We are aware of the reports by Human Rights Watch and others of targeted killings of former Afghan Security forces (ANDSF) and continue to track it closely. On 5 December the UK, along with the EU and 20 states, joined a US statement condemning the reports of summary killings and enforced disappearances of former members of the ANDSF and calling on the Taliban to effectively enforce the amnesty for former security forces and government officials.

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