Report Prepared For UN Reveals Taliban Has Begun “To Hunt Collaborators” From Major Cities In Afghanistan

The Taliban have stepped up their hunt for former Afghan security officials and people who may have worked with US or NATO forces, according to a confidential threat assessment prepared for the United Nations and seen by The Washington Post.

Activists they go from house to house, set up checkpoints and threaten to arrest or kill to relatives of “collaborators” in the main cities, according to the evaluation of August 18.

The document, produced by the Norwegian Center for Global Analysis, a UN-linked intelligence support center, describes a powerful Taliban eager to search and interrogate or punish those affiliated with the US-backed government .

According to the analysis, At particular risk are those who held central positions in the military, police and investigative units, despite the Taliban pledging this week to grant an amnesty to former officials.

Separately, a German broadcaster claims that Taliban fighters killed a relative of one of their journalists in Afghanistan, a worrying sign that the Taliban are breaking their promises to avoid retaliation and respect the media.

Fighters are taking advantage of the West’s emphasis on evacuating foreign nationals to “relentlessly search for Afghan targets inside cities.”, according to the Norwegian Center for Comprehensive Analysis document.

The same time, the group is looking for individuals outside Kabul airport, where thousands of Afghans have gathered in recent days in the hope of fleeing the country.

The Taliban have “established vehicle checkpoints on all major roads and near major cities.”, including Kabul and Jalalabad, as assessed.

He also warned of the “worst-case scenario” in which activists shut down Kabul and other towns to carry out mass arrests and public executions.

Meanwhile, the journalist’s relative was killed by Taliban fighters chasing the Deutsche Welle (DW) journalist from house to house in western Afghanistan, according to DW. The journalist now works in Germany. Other family members were able to flee from the combatants. “The murder of a close relative of one of our editors by the Taliban in Herat yesterday is incredibly tragic and testifies to the acute danger in which all of our employees and their families are in Afghanistan,” said Peter Limburg, CEO by DW. “It is clear that the Taliban are already conducting an organized search for journalists, both in Kabul and in the provinces. We are run out of time”.

The Taliban seriously injured another of his relatives. They also searched the homes of at least three journalists from the organization, according to DW. In addition, two men shot dead a translator who frequently collaborated with the German newspaper Die Zeit, according to DW.

DW and other major German media published an open letter on Sunday calling on the German government to establish an emergency visa program for its Afghan staff.

“They also shared our belief in a free press as an indispensable part of a stable, peaceful and balanced democracy, a value that the German government has strongly supported in Afghanistan over the past 20 years,” the letter read.

DW sent the names and contact details of the staff to the German Foreign Ministry so that they could be embarked on the evacuation flights. Pero llegar al aeropuerto -y undergo a los aviones una vez que la gente está allí- ha resultado difícil en los últimos días, ya que los talibanes han establecido puestos de control en las rutas de acceso y han atacado o acosado a los afganos de camino at the airport.

The German government on Friday reported that one of its citizens was shot dead on the way to the airport, but was already safe and waiting to be evacuated.

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