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WASHINGTON: A US defense group, Human Rights Watch (HRW), accused Afghan paramilitaries backed by the CIA on Thursday of committing extrajudicial executions, orchestrating forced disappearances and attacking medical facilities.<\/p>\n
The blunt report also details the changes in the US attack rules that, according to HRW, have led to indiscriminate attacks by these forces and cause disproportionate damage to civilians.<\/p>\n
The report – Many have been shot like this: abusive night raids by CIA-backed Afghan attack forces – have also documented individual cases of abuses committed by CIA-backed Afghan paramilitary forces. It states that the abuses follow established patterns, which are repeated and generalized in each province where such units operate.<\/p>\n
Human Rights Watch states that the 14 case studies documented in this report are "illustrative of a broader pattern of serious violations of war laws, some of which amount to war crimes."<\/p>\n
The report covers the period between the end of 2017 and mid-2019. The report also deepens the command and control of these "attack forces," including the role of the CIA, the United States Army and lack of supervision. by the Afghan government.<\/p>\n
The author of the report, Patricia Gossman, states that such actions not only affect immediate families, but also "have consigned entire communities to the terror of abusive night attacks and indiscriminate air attacks."<\/p>\n
The report argues that, in the absence of a broader political agreement, any agreement between the US. UU. And the Taliban would not end the armed conflict between the Afghan government and the Taliban, nor would it solve a series of conflicts that have fueled the struggle between several Afghan factions for more than four decades.<\/p>\n
Even if there is a political agreement, "the type of Afghan government that emerges, the structure of the country's defense forces and the extent to which existing militias and insurgent forces will demobilize and disarm will be critically important," the report adds.<\/p>\n
The report notes that "a flagrant omission" in the peace negotiations has so far been the discussion about the future of the Afghan underground forces operating as part of the covert operations of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
These units obtain ground support from US special forces seconded by the CIA and air support from the US army, including intelligence and surveillance in the identification of targets.<\/p>\n
Several US military officers have tried to retain these Afghan paramilitary forces in Afghanistan as a bulwark against al Qaeda and the Islamic State. These troops include "Afghan attack forces that have been responsible for extrajudicial executions and enforced disappearances, indiscriminate aerial attacks, attacks on medical facilities and other violations of international humanitarian law or the laws of war," the report states.<\/p>\n
Afghan paramilitary forces raided the home of a staff member of an Afghan NGO in March 2018. The forces arrived late at night at the family complex and separated women from men.<\/p>\n
They selected the brother of the staff member and took him to another part of the house. He was shot, leaving the body, and left with another family member, whom the government later denied having.<\/p>\n
In October 2018, a unit of the Afghan paramilitary force raided a house in the Rodat district of Nangarhar province, shooting five civilian members of a family, including an old woman and a child.<\/p>\n
In December 2018, the Khost Protection Force fatally shot six civilians during a night search operation in Paktia province. Naim Faruqi, a 60-year-old tribal elder and member of the provincial peace council, was shot in the eye, and his nephew, a student in his 20s, in the mouth.<\/p>\n
"These are not isolated cases," says the report. "They are illustrative of a broader pattern of serious violations of war laws, some equivalent to war crimes, which extends to all the provinces of Afghanistan where these paramilitary forces operate with impunity."<\/p>\n
Published on Dawn, November 1, 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/pre>\n<\/pre>\n Source: https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1514184\/cia-trained-afghan-forces-accused-of-atrocities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Abdul Jabbar, who lost four members of his family, shows the list of villagers who died in an air raid on September 19 in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. WASHINGTON: A US defense group, Human Rights Watch (HRW), accused Afghan paramilitaries backed by the CIA on Thursday of committing extrajudicial executions, orchestrating forced disappearances and attacking medical facilities. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[11077],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}