KABUL, Afghanistan
\nThe Taliban captured, bound and shot to death 27 men in Afghanistan\u2019s Panjshir Valley last month during an offensive against resistance fighters in the area, according to a report published Tuesday, The Arab News revealed. One video of the killings verified by the report shows five men, blindfolded with their hands tied behind their backs. Then, Taliban fighters spray them with gunfire for 20 seconds and cry out in celebration.
\nThe investigation by Afghan Witness, an open-source project run by the UK-based non-profit Center for Information Resilience, is a rare verification of allegations that the Taliban have used brutal methods against opposition forces and their supporters, its researchers said. Since taking power in August 2021, the Taliban have imposed a tighter and harsher rule, even as they press for international recognition of their government. David Osborn, the team leader of Afghan Witness, said the report gives the \u201dmost clear-cut example\u201d of the Taliban carrying out an \u201corchestrated purge\u201d of resistance fighters.
\nAfghan Witness said it analyzed dozens of visual sources from social media \u2014 mostly videos and photographs \u2014 to conclusively link one group of Taliban fighters to the killings of 10 men in the Dara District of Panjshir, including the five seen being mowed down in the video.
\nIt said it also confirmed 17 other extrajudicial killings from further images on social media, all showing dead men with their hands tied behind their backs. Videos and photos of Taliban fighters with the bodies aided geolocation and chrono-location, also providing close-ups of the fighters at the scene. These were cross-referenced with other videos suspected to feature the group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KABUL, Afghanistan The Taliban captured, bound and shot to death 27 men in Afghanistan\u2019s Panjshir Valley last month during an offensive against resistance fighters in the area, according to a report published Tuesday, The Arab News revealed. One video of the killings verified by the report shows five men, blindfolded with their hands tied behind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-290151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n