{"id":13683,"date":"2025-10-07T00:03:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T19:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=13683"},"modified":"2025-10-07T00:03:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T19:33:41","slug":"former-army-spokesperson-taliban-killed-3000-former-soldiers-in-past-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/former-army-spokesperson-taliban-killed-3000-former-soldiers-in-past-four-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Army Spokesperson: Taliban Killed 3,000 Former Soldiers in Past Four Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former Army Spokesperson: Taliban Killed 3,000 Former Soldiers in Past Four Years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ajmal Omar Shinwari, a spokesman for the former Afghan government\u2019s armed forces, says that the Taliban have killed more than 3,000 former soldiers and officers in the past four years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In an interview with a private media outlet, he added that more than 8,000 former soldiers are currently being held in Taliban prisons and private detention centers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to Shinwari, many of these individuals have been rearrested or disappeared after the Taliban promised a \u201cgeneral amnesty.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

He warned that the continuation of such behavior has increased the atmosphere of distrust and fear among former soldiers and their families.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In recent years, international organizations including the United Nations and Human Rights Watch have also published similar reports of detention, torture, and targeted killings of former security forces.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to one such report, dozens of former soldiers and officers have been killed without trial in Balkh, Parwan, Kapisa and Kandahar provinces.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Taliban have consistently denied the allegations, saying their forces adhere to a \u201cgeneral amnesty\u201d;<\/strong><\/p>\n

But victims\u2019 families and local sources say that cases of disappearances and targeted killings of former forces continue.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Army Spokesperson: Taliban Killed 3,000 Former Soldiers in Past Four Years. Ajmal Omar Shinwari, a spokesman for the former Afghan government\u2019s armed forces, says that the Taliban have killed more than 3,000 former soldiers and officers in the past four years. In an interview with a private media outlet, he added that more than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13684,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13683\/revisions\/13684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}