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Human Rights Watch: Taliban security forces have summarily executed and forcibly disappeared alleged members and supporters of an Islamic State offshoot in eastern Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch said today. Since the Taliban took power in August 2021, residents of Nangahar and Kunar provinces east of Kabul have discovered the bodies of more than 100 men dumped in canals and other locations.
Taliban security forces have summarily executed and forcibly disappeared alleged members and supporters of an Islamic State offshoot in eastern Afghanistan.
Something to say about it. but it is the first in what is expected to be many, many prosecutions, you know, we've talked over the past several weeks about alleged war crimes in bucha, and the u.n. human rights chief even said today that, look, we're finding -- we've already found a thousand bodies of civilians just in the kyiv area. some of those people were killed in fighting, but he says he was shocking the number of people who were not, who may have been subject to summary executions and other potential war crimes. so this, katie, surely is just the beginning. >> so, mark, let's talk about
Last night, bethman jacques had just spoken at the u.n. on the subject of war crimes, including rape and summary executions. the u.s., she said, now has credible information that a russian military unit operating near donetsk had murdered ukrainians trying to surrender. this was not an isolated incident. i spoke to the ambassador shortly before air time. ambassador, we hear this horrific reporting from my colleague nick paton walsh about a 16-year-old girl in the kherson region who says she was raped by a russian soldier at her family home. how does that align with the evidence u.s. government...
And people have been deliberately killed as well, we have been documenting summary executions and other forms of unlawful killing. we also see sexual violence as well as arbitrary detention. and disappearances. >> so incredibly vast and really right across the board of what you are outlining. any sense of the numbers here, in terms of civilian casualties and deaths? that you and your team have been able to verify. >> again unfortunately each day the numbers are going up. we are up to over 5000 civilian casualties. and these are only the cases that we have individually verified. the actual numb...