Taliban failing to punish abusive security forces, UN mission warns

Taliban failing to punish abusive security forces, UN mission warns

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers are failing to hold their own security forces to account over allegations of abuse, a UN mission has warned. UNAMA said that although Taliban personnel had made some arrests and opened investigations, the vast majority of complaints against security forces go unresolved. Victims, it said, are too afraid of reprisals — and too distrustful of Taliban-run institutions — to come forward. Women face the steepest barriers …