NEW YORK – Taliban officials in several provinces across Afghanistan have forcibly displaced residents partly to distribute land to their own supporters, Human Rights Watch said on Oct. 22. Many of these evictions have targeted Hazara Shia communities, as well as people associated with the former government, as a form of collective punishment.
Afghanistan
Human Rights Watch: Taliban forcibly evict minority Shia
A Taliban fighter stands guard atop a vehicle near the site of an Ashura procession which is held to mark the death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Mohammad, along a road in Herat on Aug. 19, 2021, amid the Taliban's military takeover of Afghanistan.
