Washington: Despite a "general amnesty" for former adversaries, the UN mission in Afghanistan reported on Tuesday that more than 200 former members of Afghanistan's military, law enforcement, and government have died since the Taliban took power.

In a report, the mission claimed that from the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in the middle of 2021 through June, it had documented at least 218 extrajudicial killings with links to them.

The majority of the time, de facto security forces detained people before killing them, according to the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).

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Senior Taliban figures have claimed that their supreme leader has ordered an amnesty for former military personnel and government officials.

In response to UNAMA, the foreign affairs ministry run by the Taliban stated that it had not been made aware of any instances of order non-compliance and that any such instances would be looked into.

In the four months following the Taliban's takeover, beginning in August 2021, as US-backed foreign forces withdrew, about half of the murders were reported by UNAMA, and 70 were reported in 2022.

The Taliban government was referred to as the "de facto authorities" in UNAMA's statement. "For the majority of violations discussed in this report, there is limited information regarding measures taken by the de facto authorities to investigate incidents and hold perpetrators to account," UNAMA said.

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Regarding the former Afghan National Defence and Security Forces, UNAMA stated, "The apparent impunity with which members of the de facto authorities continue to commit human rights violations against former government officials and ANDSF members is of serious concern."

800 instances of Taliban-related human rights abuses against former government employees and members of the military were all documented by UNAMA, including arbitrary detentions, disappearances, and torture.

According to the mission, the majority of people were against former members of the police and security forces.

The amnesty order and another order against torturing or mistreating people in custody were both issued, according to the Taliban-led foreign affairs ministry.

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It denied targeting individuals who participated in or worked for the former government's foreign-backed military or engaged in extrajudicial killings.
The UN released a statement along with its report that read, "No military staff of the previous administration has been arrested, detained or tortured because of his activities in the security institutions."

"Those employees of the previous administration who joined the Taliban government's opposition groups or engaged in military activities against the system have been detained and presented to judicial authorities."